Robert Szold, former president of the Zionist Organization of America and vice-chairman of the Council of the Jewish Agency, and Mrs. Szold, vice-president of Hadassah, will leave tomorrow on the Conte di Savoia for Palestine, where they will spend several months.
Mr. Szold, for whom this will be the third visit to Palestine, will make a survey of the economic development of the country. He is chairman of the board of directors of the American Economic Committee for Palestine, vice-president of the Palestine Economic Corporation, treasurer of the Palestine Endowment Funds, Inc. and a director of the Palestine Potash Ltd.
As national chairman of the Palestine Committee of Hadassah, Mrs. Szold will confer with the Palestine members of the Rothschild-Hadassah- University Hospital building committee and bring back to America full details of the progress of the project.
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