Provision for the personal needs, religious and recreational, of the 6,500 Jewish soldiers in Palestine and those fighting in Greece and Egypt with the British forces will be made by the United Palestine Appeal with funds received in its $12,000,000 1941 campaign, Chairman Abba Hillel Silver announced today.
“To safeguard the homeland which the courage and sacrifice of Jewish pioneers have created on what was once arid and desolate land, and to make their contribution in men and material to the prosecution of the war for the preservation of Western civilization and freedom and tolerance for all men, the 550,000 Jews of Palestine are prepared to give their unremitting and devoted service,” Dr. Silver said.
The ultimate establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine “capable of meeting the unprecedented problem of Jewish homelessness” is dependent upon a victory by Britain in its struggle against the Nazis, Judge Morris Rothenberg, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America, said in a statement released by ZOA headquarters in Washington in connection with its Membership Month.
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