The United Jewish Appeal and the Israel Bond drive were described by Israel’s Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett as “a two-story house” in addressing 2,000 delegates at a meeting here yesterday of the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal.
“We must build a two-story house,” Mr. Sharett said. “I call the United Jewish Appeal the ground floor. Through the U.J.A. you do things which are absolutely vital and elementary. You sink money in the land and in the soul of Israel. You build up a new soul and character of the people. On that you expect no returns, yet you create new life for the country and the people.
“In the second story, you proceed to bring into being one after another, methods of long-range production. And it is there where we spend the money which we get from the sale of Israel bonds on which we issue interest. It is useless to start building a second story without first building the first story. We still must strengthen the very foundation of our work through the United Jewish Appeal,” Mr. Sharett emphasized.
The sum of $500,000 was raised at the meeting of the Council which is composed of 7,000 Jewish landsmanshaften groups with a membership of 750,000. Other speakers at the meeting included Meyer Hartman, director of Amidar, Israel’s governmental housing agency, Municipal Court Justice Benjamin Shalleck and Judge Jonah J. Goldstein.
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