The nationwide United Jewish Appeal campaign raised $213.3 million during Jan. 1-April 26, compared with $170.63 million for the same period last year, general chairman Paul Zuckerman reported today. The increase, he said, “reflects the determined efforts of American Jewry and its leaders to take up the challenge and meet in full their responsibility toward the 70,000 immigrants–many of them from the Soviet Union–expected in Israel during 1972.” Additional funds, he went on, are “desperately required to solve the many humanitarian needs of the people of Israel.”
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