Stirred by Jewish casualties in riot-ridden Morocco and the rising clamor of North African Jewry for emigration to Israel, the United Jewish Appeal announced today that it is forming an extraordinary overseas study mission of the nation’s most prominent Jewish leaders who will leave this country for a three-week on-the-spot investigation, with the aim of reporting its findings soon after its return.
William Rosenwald, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, who will head the mission, announced that it will be made up of between 40 and 50 leaders whose studies and investigations will focus with sharp intensity on the Jewish plight in North Africa and with equal force on Israel’s requirements in the face of mounting immigration from Morocco and Tunisia. In addition to Mr. Rosenwald, the mission will include Edward M.W. Warburg president of the UJA, and Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, the UJA’s executive vice-president.
The group will go directly to Paris to attend a three-day conference of the Joint Distribution Committee, whose country directors in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria will be on hand with up-to-the-minute reports. At the conclusion of these sessions the mission will move on to Israel for conferences with leaders of both the Government and the Jewish Agency. It is expected that a mission sub-committee will go into North Africa following the close of the Israel phase of its investigations.
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