More than 1,000 top Jewish communal leaders from all sections of the country arrived here today to participate in the National Inaugural Conference of the United Jewish Appeal, which will climax in a public dinner Sunday evening at the Fontainebleau Hotel, officially launching the 20th annual life-saving campaign of the UJA.
The Inaugural Conference this year for the first time will also serve to honor one of the UJA’s founders and outstanding leaders, William Rosenwald, general chairman of the successful campaigns in 1955; 1956 and 1957. It will be addressed by Brigadier General Dan Tolkowsky, commander of the Israel Air Force.
In the past 19 years, UJA funds have provided relief to more than 2,600,000 Jewish men, women and children. Of these, 1,300,000 were rescued and resettled in free lands, 1,000,000 in Israel. In 1958, the United Jewish Appeal seeks a $100, 000, 000 rescue fund for the needs of approximately 80, 000 migrant Jews, of whom an estimated 70, 000 will settle in Israel, and the rest in the United States and other free lands. At the same time the UJA’s regular campaign must support programs providing welfare, medical, rehabilitation and resettlement services for an additional 535, 000 persons throughout the world.
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