United Jewish Appeal to Start $25,000,000 Emergency Cash Drive

The United Jewish Appeal will launch this Friday an emergency short-term drive to raise a minimum of $25,000,000 in cash to help overcome the effects in Israel of a recent $10,000,000 crop failure and to speed the creation there of critically needed new settlements and immigrant housing in anticipation of refugees fleeing continuing anti-Jewish tensions in Eastern Europe, it was announced today by Edward M. M. Warburg, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.

Emphasizing that “every dollar” raised in this short-term drive must be made available to the United Jewish Appeal without delay,” Mr. Warburg warned that “Israel will be brought to its financial knees if it is forced by agricultural reversals and by outside tensions to divert long-range development dollars for the import of food and for programs of immigrant settlement and absorption.”

He stressed that the $25,000,000 cash fund will be applied toward the financing of this critical four-point program; 1. The swift renewal of Israel’s diminished food stocks; 2. The addition this summer of 30 new agricultural settlements as a means of speeding the absorption of Israel’s newcomers, 240, 000 of whom are now in immigrant camps; 3. The early completion of 27,000 housing units as another feature of the program to clear the immigrant camps; 4. The rapid movement from West Berlin to Israel and other havens of refugees from Iron Curtain countries.

Joseph Holtzman of Detroit, a national campaign chairman of this year’s annual drive, has accepted the chairmanship of the $25,000,000 cash effort and will head a newly-established National Cash Cabinet whose members are now being recruited from community leadership bodies in each of the 48 states.