The Keren Hayesod, fund raising arm of the World Zionist Organization, opening its emergency campaign here, obtained pledges in a single evening equal to 75 percent of all pledges received in Berlin during all of last year. Israel’s Ambassador to Bonn, Asher Ben Nathan and S.I. Kreutner, European director of the KH, were the speakers. One hundred delegates representing all Jewish communities in West Germany, attended the Keren Hayesod convention that opened here.
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