There will be a special meeting of contributors to the American Pro-Falasha Committee on Thursday evening at the Federation Building, 71 West 47th Street, to hear a report of Dr. Jacques Faitlovitch, Executive Director, who is now in the country who will tell of the work in Abyssinia. He will speak particularly of the situation of the Falasha Jews in the interior of the country.
In a few days the remains of Dr. Maurice Coffinas will be transferred to Tel-Aviv. Dr. Coffinas, was a Zionist deputy for Salonica from 1915 to 1920, and was the initiator of a great movement in Greece on behalf of the Jewish National Fund, for the establishment of a colony of Greek Jews in Palestine. On this occasion a wood of 500 trees bearing the name of Dr. Coffinas will be planted in the forest of the National Fund in the valley of Izrael.
About sixty Jews from Salonica and other Greek towns, headed by M. Ascher Moissis, president of the Commissariat of the Jewish National Fund, and M. Isaac Angel, a member of the Executive and honorary secretary of the Zionist Federation of Greece, are going to Palestine on the same occasion. M. Moissis and M. Angel have been instructed by the Zionist Federation of Greece to work towards the realization of the creation of an agricultural colony of Greek Jews in Palestine.
The voyage from Salonica to Haifa and from Haifa to La Pireus has been organized by the Commisariat of the Jewish National Fund for Greece. The travellers will embark at Pireus, on board the Dacia, a Roumanian steamer.
There will be a special meeting of contributors to the American Pro-Falasha Committee on Thursday evening at the Federation Building, 71 West 47th Street, to hear a report of Dr. Jacques Faitlovitch, Executive Director, who is now in the country who will tell of the work in Abyssinia. He will speak particularly of the situation of the Falasha Jews in the interior of the country.Dr. Faitlovitch has been in charge of this work for over 25 years, and at the conclusion of his visit here will return to his activities abroad.
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