Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir cabled his congratulations to Israel Bond Organization leaders in New York after they announced that the organization had sold $251,476,000 of Israel Bonds in 1971. In a cable addressed to Sam Rothberg, general chairman of the Israel Bond Organization, and Leo Bernstein, executive vice-president, Sapir wrote:
“At a time when citizens of Israel are shouldering burdens unprecedented in the annals of any other small nation, your share in helping to meet challenges which face us on every hand should be a great source of satisfaction to you all.” Continuing, Sapir stated that the “historic opportunity granted our generation in unfreezing the gates of the Soviet Union must not be wasted despite our heavy security obligations.”
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