The need for rapidly establishing a large class of farmers in Israel was emphasized by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Israeli President, in a message to the Jewish National Fund of America made public here today. The message was addressed to 1,400 delegates from all parts of the country who will participate an extraordinary conference convoked by the J.N.F., which opens tomorrow at the ##tel Astor.
The conference, which will last three days, will be addressed by Dr. Abraham ##enovsky, world chairman of the J.N.F., and will hear a message from Israeli Premier David Ben Gurion who will speak to the gathering in his first broadcast to the United states since he was invited to head the Government of Israel. The broadcast will be de on a nationwide hook-up.Other principal speakers at the parley will include Eliahu Elath, Israel’s ambassador to the United States; Aubrey Eban, head of the Israeli delegation at the United Nations; Judge Morris Rothenberg, president of the Jewish National Fund of America and acting chairman of the United Palestine Appeal. Dr. Weizmann, in his message, pointed out that “with the establishment of the state of Israel the functions of the Jewish National Fund have grown seven-fold” and that the needs of the Jewish state have become more pressing. He called upon American Jewry for intensification of its efforts in behalf of the complete redemption of the soil of Israel through the J.N.F.
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