U.S. Jews Lauded by Jewish Agency for Aiding Israel

The role of American Jewry in rall### political aid of Israel during the recent crisis in Israel-American relations## for high praise here yesterday as Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Beri Locker, ## men of the Jewish Agency executive, reported on Zionist and pro-Israel ## in the United States.

Dr. Goldmann also praised the achievements of the recent American ## Assembly at which representatives of all Zionist parties in the U.S. eval## work and laid plans for unified action in Israel’s behalf. He reviewed and ##tional plan for a proposed “general Jewish council for Israel,” in which ### united Zionists and non-Zionists interested in assisting the Jewish State.##Dr. Goldmann also reported on his recent conversations in Bonn. He ## the arrangements in Germany for handling the problem of compensation ## victims of Nazism. He also announced that $8,000,000 of German repa### been distributed among various Jewish institutions throughout the world. ## same time, he outlined the background of the current deadlock in the Au## restitution negotiations.

Levi Eshkol, Israel Finance Minister, reported on his meetings with## the American Jewish community on raising a loan for Israel to permit ### date its short-term obligations. He said he was highly satisfied with bot## al participation of United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bond leaders in the ## raise such a loan and by their readiness to assist the project in all poss##.

Dr. Emanuel Neumann, head of the Agency’s economic department former president of the Zionist Organization of America, reported on the## American Jewry after the Kibya incident and the State Department’s int## aid to Israel. Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the World Confederati## Zionists, called for efforts to maintain cordial relations between the U## Israel Bond organization in the future.