Some 55 American and Canadian Jewish leaders are to arrive in Israel next week for a three-day top level conference with government leaders on the financial and economic problems facing Israel. The conference will be held at the invitation of Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who sent an urgent cable to the Israel Bond Organization calling for such a meeting only hours after he had assumed office in June.
Sam Rothberg, general chairman, and Michael Arnon, president and chief executive officer of the Israel Bond Organization, pointed out that the Bond leadership conference in Jerusalem would be the first meeting between American and Canadian Jewish leaders and top members of the Israel Cabinet since the decision on a new economic policy.
The purpose of the conference, Rothberg said, is to consider how “we can best help the people of Israel meet the heaviest economic and financial burdens in their history which have placed upon them the back-breaking load of the highest taxes and compulsory loans of any country in the world.”
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