A 1,200-women special United Jewish Appeal mission, led by Mrs. Bernard Schaenan of Dallas, Texas, toured Israel today to see at first hand UJA support of the humanitarian needs of Israel. The women came here from Austria where they visited the site of the Nazi Mauthausen death camp and later visited Vienna where they met refugees “in transit” from Eastern Europe. Mrs. Schaenan said that the program of aiding such Jews was supported by the Jewish Agency, an effort to bring people together with their families in other parts of the world. The number of such study missions from overseas Jewish communities has increased eightfold since the Six-Day War, from six in 1967 to 48, a study mission from Toronto was advised by Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman of Keren Hayesod. He noted also that the United Jewish Appeal is seeking $1 billion in aid to Israel this year.
(The United Jewish Appeal in France raised nearly $8 million in 1970, a more than 50 percent in crease over 1969, Deputy Director Alfred Zemour announced today at the opening of the drive’s fourth national convention in Paris. However, he deplored the fact that while total contributions had risen, there had been no increase in the number of individual donors. Israeli Ambassador Asher Ben-Nathan told the 1,500 delegates representing 150 fund-raising committees that Israel “can count only on its own determination and on the Jewish people” for funds. Dr. Jacob Kaplan, the Chief Rabbi of France, told the conferees they were “living proof of the unbreakable ties which bind the French Jewish community to Israel.”)
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