More than 2,000 delegates to the annual West Coast conference of the Israel Histadrut campaign paid double honor today to Julius Fliegelman of Los Angeles at the same time voting for two separate campaign quotas, each for $500,000. Guest speakers included Michael Arnon, Israel’s Consul General in New York, and Ralph L. Helstein, international president of the AFL-CIO United Packinghouse Foods and Allied Workers.
Bernard B. Jacobson, the Histadrut drive’s West Coast director, announced that the delegates set a regular campaign quota of $500,000 and pledged another half million dollars to the American Histadrut Development Foundation. Mr. Fliegelman was reelected as Pacific Coast president of the Israel Histadrut campaign and at the same time received the founders award of the Development Foundation whose program he helped initiate five years ago. The award was presented by John I. Marder, reelected as the campaign’s Los Angeles chairman. He noted that Fliegelman recently doubled his earlier bequest to the Development Foundation to a total of $50,000.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
