The Seaboard Zionist Region will endeavor to raise $51,175 as part of a fund for settling German Jewish refugees in Palestine. The goal was set at a meeting of the administrative committee yesterday.
The region includes Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina and the District of Columbia. Campaigns to raise contributions will start as early as February in some sections of the area, but Baltimore and Washington expect to hold their campaigns in the middle of April. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the World Zionist Organization, is expected to visit Baltimore during the drive.
Approximately 65,000 Jews have left Germany in the past year, it was estimated by Simon J. Levin, executive director. Of that number, Mr. Levin said about 8,000 have found a haven in Palestine, while others are living temporarily in Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Poland and France, with about 25,000 in the latter country.
At the meeting Mr. Levin reported that since the establishment of the Seaboard region in 1921 more than $1,200,000 has been raised in the area for all Palestine purposes. He also asserted that twenty-two new Zionist organizations have been created in the region during the past few months.
The annual regional conference will be held April 23 and 24 in Richmond, Va.
The Rev. Dr. Edward L. Israel, rabbi of the Har Sinai Temple, presided at the meeting. Daniel Ellison, one of three Jewish members of the City Council, was a speaker.
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