Contributions totaling more than $1,400,000 toward the 1965 drive of the Women’s Division of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, were announced here today at the formal inauguration of the drive attended by some 4,000 volunteer workers.
In addition to their share of the regular UJA national goal of $109,400,000, the Women’s Division announced that it was undertaking a special $750,000 project for the Israel Education Fund for the construction of a comprehensive high school in Dimona, in Israel’s Negev, a center of newly settled immigrant population.
Guest of honor at the inauguration rally was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and winner of the most recent Nobel Prize for Peace, who was presented with the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Award of the New York UJA Women’s Division for “enhancing the dignity of man.” In presenting the award, William Rosenwald, honorary chairman of the UJA, hailed “Dr. King’s leadership in today’s struggle for the freedom of 22,000,000 Americans.”
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