A quarter of a million pounds were received by the Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund) during the eleven months ending last August, the Keren Hayesod headquarters here report. Of this sum £85,000, something over a third of the total, was contributed by the United States, and the remaining £165,000 came from all other parts of the world.
Mr. Leib Jaffe, Managing Director of the Keren Hayesod, is leaving for London immediately after the holidays in order to head the Keren Hayesod Campaign to be conducted in Great Britain and Ireland.
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