Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, a national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal since its inception in 1939, sailed today for a four-week tour of France and Italy, during which he will inspect United Jewish Appeal-supported health, rehabilitation and child-care institutions. He will also study the large-scale emigration program being carried on in Marseille and Bari, which have become the principal staging areas for the transfer of refugees to Israel.
Rabbi Wise will inspect the network of transient camps operated in those cities by the Joint Distribution Committee to care for the backlog of potential emigrants who are awaiting transportation to Haifa. While in Marseille, he will get first-hand reports on the situation of the Jews in North Africa, hundreds of whom reach the French port every week in their flight from disease, poverty and oppression.
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