The United Jewish Appeal will hold a two-day emergency National Action Conference in Washington at which plans will be mapped to speed financial aid to Israel to raise the agricultural productivity of the country this summer, it was announced today by Edward M. M. Warburg, general chairman of the UJA.
The conference will open on June 6 at the Mayflower Hotel and will be addressed by outstanding U.S. and Israel Government figures, as well as by American Jewish leaders. It will also mark the close of a special $25,000,000 cash drive launched last Friday to help Israel cope with a temporary agricultural setback resulting from a $10,000,000 crop failure in the Negev.
Mr. Warburg emphasized the importance of the United Jewish Appeal in Israel’s plan for greater agricultural output. “UJA funds,” he said, “can help this summer to establish 30 new rural settlements and add close to 25,000 immigrants to the farming population from among the 240,000 newcomers presently living in reception centers and temporary refugee villages.” He stressed that UJA funds are also “vital to the continued expansion this summer of irrigation and water development schemes, without which agriculture in Israel cannot survive.”
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