A group of 86 American Jewish men and women will leave New York tomorrow in the Sixth Annual Leadership Mission of the United Jewish Appeal for a 26-day survey of Jewish immigration and absorption needs in Israel and refugee aid programs in France, Italy and Greece aided by UJA funds.
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, UJA executive vice-chairman, will lead the mission which is by invitation to young men and women in the 25 to 40 year bracket, who demonstrate “leadership potential” in their home communities. Each is paying his own way. Herbert J. Garon of New Orleans, associate chairman of the UJA Young Leadership Cabinet, is chairman of the 1966 mission.
Mission members will see at first hand the workings of the life-sustaining program carried out by the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel, the two major beneficiaries of the annual UJA fund-raising campaigns.
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