The three-day national conference of the Jewish National Fund of America, originally scheduled to open February 11, will open in Washington, at the Willard Hotel, on March 11, according to an announcement made today by Dr. Harris J. Levine, president of the Jewish National Fund of America.
The change was necessary in order to make it possible for highly placed personages in the State of Israel to attend the conference as guest speakers. The conference will discuss problems of land reclamation and land development in Israel, especially as they affect the security of the country, with special emphasis on the work-villages, which, established along the borders, are not only increasing the agricultural output, but are also the guardians of the frontiers against Arab attacks.
A call for the conference has been issued to all the constituent organizations and JNF Councils, as well as to individual JNF leaders throughout the country. About 1,000 delegates from all over the country are expected to attend the gathering which, in addition to plenary sessions, will also hold a number of panels devoted to special problems of the Jewish National Fund both in Israel and in the United States.
In his call for the conference, Dr. Levine said: “The time has some for us not only to review our work which has contributed so much to the founding of the State of Israel, but also to plan for the future consolidation and security of the Jewish State. The mobilization of American Jewry’s resources on behalf of a land reclamation and land development program in Israel was never as pressing and of such decisive moment as it is today when the very future and existence of the Jewish State depend on a strong chain of Jewish settlements along the borders and an a agricultural self-sufficiency that will guarantee the food supplies of a growing Jewish population. The Jewish National Fund, which throughout all vicissitudes, has been one of the mainstays of the Yishuv, must now rally to the support of the State of Israel in its critical hour.”
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