The Provident Bank of Cincinnati has purchased a half-million dollars in State of Israel Bonds, representing the largest Israel Bond purchase in the history of the campaign in Ohio. Joseph F. Rippe, president of the Provident Bank, this week turned over a check for $500,000 to Gene I. Mesh, chairman of the Cincinnati Israel Bond Committee, to complete the record-breaking purchase. In hailing the outstanding Israel Bond purchase, Mesh declared that the economic development made possible by Israel Bonds Is helping create jobs for new immigrants from Russia and elsewhere.
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