American Jews were urged to take a leading part in the international movement to create in Palestine a memorial to the late Earl Balfour, the author of the declaration pledging the British Government to use its best endeavors for the creation in Palestine of a Jewish National Home, in a cablegram addressed by M. M. Ussishkin, president of the Jewish National Fund with headquarters in Jerusalem to Emanuel Neumann, president of the Jewish National Fund of America.
The memorial to Lord Balfour is to be created in Palestine in accordance with a decision of the Zionist General Council at its recent session in London. The fund needed for this purpose, it is expected, will be raised through proceeds of a Balfour Volume of the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund, the agency for the acquisition of land in Palestine. The nature of the memorial is to be decided at the next meeting of the General Council in accordance with the amount then available. There will be room for 5,000 inscriptions in the Balfour Volume of donors who contribute $100 or more towards the Fund. A sum of $500,000 will thus be raised in the Jewish communities throughout the world. The Jewish Agency for Palestine was the first to enter its inscription in the Balfour Volume and the Vaad Leumi, the national Council of Palestine Jewry, was the second body to pay its tribute to the memory of Lord Balfour.
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