Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, used the forum of a birthday party given him last night by the 200-member 12th annual United Jewish Appeal mission to reiterate that “a Zionist is one who settles in Israel.”
Until American Jews settle in Israel, he told the American and Canadian Jewish leaders, American Jewry must increase Hebrew education among the younger generation, learn the Bible in the original Hebrew to bring the young near to Judaism, and at the same time foster American Jewry. A huge birthday cake was presented to the former Premier.
The Israel Education Fund of the UJA is providing, through 21 current projects, jobs for more than 400 workers in a contribution to easing Israel’s growing unemployment problem, Jack Weiler, of New York, a UJA national chairman, said yesterday in upper Nazareth.
He was one of the speakers at a ceremony dedicating the Moshe Sharett Comprehensive High School, constructed with funds provided by the Education Fund in memory of the late Foreign Minister and Prime Minister, and chairman of the Jewish Agency executive. The members of the UJA mission attended the ceremony. Speakers stressed that the high school would have a far-reaching effect on the area, because it would train technicians and craftsmen for the region’s growing industrialization.
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