The fifth annual United Jewish Appeal Western Leadership Conference, which ended yesterday, was described as the most successful in the series with more than 750 leaders from 48 cities in 18 states in attendance.
Avraham Harman, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, told the delegates that the movement of refugees to Israel during the past decade was the largest and fastest immigration in Jewish history. He warned that Israel was still facing major problems of refugee absorption because one-third of the newcomers still were not adequately integrated.
Other addresses were given by Morris W. Berinstein, general chairman of the UJA, Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, UJA executive vice-chairman, Dewey D. Stone, UJA national chairman, and Charles H. Jordan, overseas director of the Joint Distribution Committee.
The conference, under the leadership of Dr. Max W. Bay, chairman and Benjamin H. Swig, co-chairman, was the kick-off for the western region campaign of the UJA.
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