The treasurer of the Jewish Agency told the Zionist General Council here today that 1969 receipts from the United Jewish Appeal and the United Israel Appeal for Jewish Agency work here would amount to $215 million, A.L. Dulczin, the treasurer, said this total compared to $169 million in 1968. In 1967, year of the Six-Day War, the Jews of the world contributed $346 million. The goal for the next two years, he said, is $700 million – the equivalent of the totals raised in the past three years. Mr. Dulczin projected income for the year commencing next April at $380 million, including $14 million in repayment of loans extended by the Jewish Agency to immigrants.
Although that figure is small, it was considered significant that some of the immigrants who were aided by the Jewish Agency in their resettlement in Israel were already capable of making some contribution of their own to the immigrant absorption effort. Sixty percent of the new budget is earmarked for the needs of immigrants including immigration, primary absorption, housing, welfare, health and education. The budget is based on a forecast of 60,000 immigrants during the coming year. Immigration movements now exist in 21 countries, Mr. Dulczin said, and there are 114 immigration centers. Total immigration since statehood has exceeded 1,300,000, including 93,000 youths and children trained in Youth Aliya institutions.
Mr. Dulczin disclosed that during the coming year, the Youth Aliya organization would handle some 3,000 retarded youths aged 13-18, who have not yet reached elementary school levels. Describing Jewish Agency educational activities abroad, Mr. Dulczin said these currently involve 560 school inspectors, principals, teachers, kindergarten teachers and instructors from Israel. He said efforts would be made to establish high schools so as to provide for continuation of Jewish education. Mr. Dulczin spoke enthusiastically of a new project undertaken by the Jewish Agency, the sale of quality Israeli products abroad. He said an experiment in this direction had been attempted in Philadelphia and the community there had responded enthusiastically. Mr. Dulczin, a Minister Without Portfolio in the Israel Government, has announced his resignation from the Jewish Agency treasurership to take effect following adoption of the 1970 budget.
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