Israeli President Zalman Shazar, before his departure yesterday for Israel, appealed to the American Jewish community to work in partnership with the people of Israel in the task of absorbing the increasing influx of Soviet Jewish immigrants. In a meeting with United Jewish Appeal officials, Shazar stressed that “the historic role of integrating Soviet Jewish immigrants is one which must be shared by the people of Israel and the Jewish community of the United States.”
The UJA leaders, Herbert Tenzer, president of the UJA of Greater New York, Irving Bernstein, executive vice-chairman of the national UJA and Ernest Michel, executive director of New York UJA, told Shazar that the final results of the 1972 campaign indicate it was the most successful campaign in American Jewry’s history, and that current projections indicate even further increases in the 1973 campaign now underway. Some 60,000 immigrants arrived in Israel during 1972, a substantial number of which were from the Soviet Union. Current projections are for a total of 70,000 additional new immigrants in 1973.
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