Palestine Jewish youth is showing the keenest interest in aviation, following the announcement that the Royal Air Force would accept Palestinian pilots.
Three aviation clubs, supported by the Jewish and the Jewish National Council, are intensely active and are graduating scores of pilots, all of them–including several girls–licensed by the Government and anxious to fight on the side of Britain.
President Lev of the Palestine Anti-Nazi League, has sent a memorandum to Pinchas Rutenberg, president of the Jewish National Council, urging that he inaugurate a collection for a Jabotinsky aviation fund to supply fighting planes for Britain and also to prepare Jewish pilots.
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