The United Jewish Appeal’s Young Leadership mission completed its three week stay in Israel and heard Charles Sugarman, mission chairman, tell the closing session that the mission’s objective of maximum exposure to the problems of Israel had been fully accomplished. He expressed confidence that the young leaders now recognize the problems of Israel.
Louis A. Pincus, Jewish Agency Executive chairman, said that approximately 60 percent of the 40,000 immigrants expected in Israel this year would be destitute. Herbert A. Friedman. UJA executive chairman, appealed to young leaders to direct their home communities towards greater efforts in the UJA’s Israel Emergency Fund campaign.
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