A 35-member delegation of Jewish leaders from major cities in all parts of the country will depart from New York by air on Feb. 21 for a three-week survey tour of the operations of United Jewish Appeal agencies in Europe and Israel, during which they will study the movement of large masses of home-less Jews from Europe to the Jewish state.
William Rosenwald, Herman L. Weisman and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national chairman of the $250,000,000 United Jewish Appeal, said today that the delegation will include representatives from the Jewish communities of New York, Passaic, N.J., Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Rochester, Baltimore, Kansas City, Dallas and other cities.
The group, each member of which is traveling at his own expense, will make its first stop in Paris where the work conducted by the Joint Distribution Committee will be surveyed. The delegation will then proceed to Marseilles to inspect the network of transient camps for Jews awaiting transportation to Israel. The delegates will spend 12 days in Israel itself.
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