Pinhas Sapir reported to the World Zionist Organization Executive yesterday that financial difficulties in the United States were making it increasingly-difficult to collect United Jewish Appeal pledges and that the Jewish Agency was considering ways to cut next year’s budget because of shrinking UJA receipts. Sapir, who is chairman of the WZO and Jewish Agency Executives; reported on his recent five-week tour of 32 American cities and several European countries.
He said a special committee was preparing a convention of American Jews to discuss ways to expand American Jewish activities on Israel’s behalf from fund-raising to aliya. Mordechai Bar-On, head of the Jewish Agency’s youth department, reported that a massive information drive was underway at 400 American universities to encourage aliya to Israel.
The immigration and absorption department reported that a volunteer organization in Chicago would soon begin an aliya campaign among “blue collar” Jews in that city with the aim of organizing them into aliya groups to settle in new development towns in Israel.
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