Young Leaders from U.S. Jewish Communities to Study Israel

The United Jewish Appeal today announced that Young Leadership Groups from various Jewish communities throughout the country are scheduled to make comprehensive study tours of Israel during the Spring. A group of 20 young Jewish community leaders of Chicago left for Israel last week; and similar groups from five other Jewish communities left earlier.

Developed by the United Jewish Appeal as a means of encouraging the rise of new, informed leadership in local communities, the young leadership tours of Israel are designed to give the American visitors eyewitness experience both with the problems confronting the people of Israel and the progress being achieved in economic, industrial, agricultural, and social areas. The experience they gain as first-hand observers in Israel, it is felt, helps orient them as supporters of central Jewish fund-raising and as firmly-motivated UJA leaders.

The Chicago participants are the second young leadership group from their community to take off for Israel. Other communities from which young leadership groups have gone on study missions to Israel since mid-February are: Newark, N. J.; Westport and Meridan, Conn.; St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn.; Kansas City, Mo., Indianapolis, Ind, and Atlantic City, N. J. Results of the young leadership tours have been highly lauded by local community executives, who note that the tours have inspired their participants to increased activity and leadership responsibility in local campaigns. While the Young Leadership Group tours are sponsored by the UJA, all expenses are met by the participants themselves.