Leaders of the United Jewish Appeal here completed today a week of intensive preparatory meetings prior to the opening of the two-day national conference on Saturday evening at which the 1956 UJA nationwide campaign will be launched.
This is the eighth successive year that the UJA is opening its national campaign from Miami. Unlike the previous campaigns, this year’s drive will seek the fulfillment of two goals as against the usual one; with the combined goals totalling more than $130,000,000 Of this sum, the UJA will seek: 1. A total of $105,283,435 to finance the migration, welfare and rehabilitation programs that are carried on in Israel, Europe, Moslem countries and other areas by its constituent agencies–The United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and New York Association for New Americans 2. A sum of $25,000,000 plus for an emergency Special Fund that has been designed exclusively for the resettlement in Israel of Jews now streaming out of turbulent North Africa.
More than 650 Jewish communal leaders representing UJA campaign affiliates throughout the United States will participate in the two-day conference. At the final session on Sunday night, the principal speaker will be Dr. Giora Josephthal, treasurer of the Jewish Agency and head of its Immigrant Absorption Department. Dr. Josephthal will report on the upsurge of Jewish refugee immigration from tense North Africa, which has giver rise to a critical financial emergency for the people of Israel, already hard-pressed to meet their defense emergency resulting from the Communist arming of Egypt.
A rapidly growing nationwide response by the membership of the Labor Zionist Movement to the organization’s call for a gift of a minimum of one week’s pay to the United Jewish Appeal’s Special Fund was reported here. The report was issued by Baruch Zuckerman, chairman of the Labor Zionist Assembly, central organ representing the Labor Zionist Organization of America, Farband, Pioneer Women and Habonim.
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