The launching of a $250,000 emergency campaign by the Tel-Hai Fund “on behalf of the refugees now entering Palestine” was announced today by Rabbi Louis I. Newman, honorary president of the fund, who said that K. Bert Friedman, Assistant United States District Attorney for New York, had accepted the chairmanship of the National Advisory Committee of the fund.
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