The World ORT Union executive committee adopted a record budget of $12, 020, 000 for 1966 at the close of a two-day meeting which reviewed the ORT program of activities in 22 nations. Daniel Mayer, of Paris, World ORT chairman, and Dr. William Haber, of Lansing, Mich., president of the ORT central board, presided at the two-day session.
Attending delegations included ORT officials from the United States, Canada, Denmark, France, Britain, Israel, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and Tunisia.
Max A. Braude, ORT director general, reported that, for the first time, national organizations would meet two-thirds of the 1966 expenditures. He said that this reflected “the development of our national organizations as well as the esteem in which they are held by their governments and community organizations in their countries of operation.”
Dr. V. Halperin, ORT director, told the executive committee that the total enrollment in ORT schools at the end of 1965 had increased by 12 percent over the previous year, and that a total of 46, 000 persons had benefited from ORT training programs in 1965.
In adopting the budget, the executive committee endorsed the agreement between ORT and the Joint Distribution Committee, which provides $1, 950, 000 to ORT from United Jewish Appeal funds. The committee also thanked the Jewish Colonization Association for increasing its grant this year to the World ORT Union. It also expressed appreciation to the Women’s American ORT for its continued support and for assuming additional financial obligation to help a proposed doubling of ORT trade schools in Israel.
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