A check for $250,000 will be presented at the forthcoming World Zionist Congress to Menachem M. Ussishkin, world president of the Jewish National Fund, by Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American J.N.F., it was announced here today. The presentation will be made in the name of friends of the American J.N.F. as a token of their confidence in the future development of Palestine and the their determination to shoulder in the future an ever greater share in the burden of building the Jewish National Home.
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