A planeload of hundreds of American volunteers left for Israel Sunday on a chartered El Al plane.
According to Florence Cohen, vice president and national coordinator of Volunteers For Israel, 362 volunteers from all over the United States went to Israel on a three-week program of volunteer work in army camps, hospitals, kibbutzim and moshavim.
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