Six-Day War Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin has begun – at Premier Golda Meir’s and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir’s request–to organize a campaign for raising voluntary loans from Israelis – in addition to the compulsory loan which the government will levy from all taxpayers. Rabin heads a three-man committee including Zalman Suzayeff, a leader of the Industrialists Association, and Asher Yadlin, a top Histadrut official.
Over and above the IL 1 billion in one year to be raised by the compulsory loan, this committee hopes to raise an additional IL 500,000 from voluntary loans from rich Israelis. The first meeting, to be attended by President Ephraim Katzir and other public personalities, Is due tomorrow morning to launch the campaign. Rabin said today he had already notched up IL 100 million pounds in pledges. The public statement issued by the committee declared: “We must strengthen the Israel defense forces in the very midst of combat – with new arms and equipment that will help save lives and hasten victory….We call on every citizen and every family to respond wholeheartedly and subscribe to the war loan, in big or small sums, each according to his means.” All the banks will seel the war loan.
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