A call for the first national conference of the Jewish National Fund was issued by Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt, chairman of the Fund. The conference which will take place May 9th, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York, occurs on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the National Fund. One hundred delegates, leaders in National Fund work throughout the country are expected to attend.
The conference, which will celebrate the silver jubilee of the National Fund and review its various activities for the upbuilding of the Jewish National Homeland during the past twenty-five years, is expected to adopt an extensive program for the intensification of Jewish National Fund work throughout the United States and the widening of its activities in Palestine.
The planting of 100,000 trees in Palestine by American Jews during the next month is one of the varied activities of the Fund, which will be dwelt upon at the conference. Thus far the Fund has planted over 300,000 trees in Palestine in its extensive afforestation campaign, it was stated.
Since its establishment twenty-five years ago, the National Fund has invested over $6,000,000 in the purchase and improvement of land in Palestine, which at the present increased values, represents a total of over $10,000,000. Over 250,000 dunam have been purchased by the Fund, which is held as the inalienable property of the Jewish people. Upon this land many of the colonies of the Keren Hayesod are located, as well as public and school buildings throughout the country. In addition to purchasing land in the name of the Jewish people, the Fund prepares the land for colonization by the Keren Hayesod through drainage, irrigation, clearing away rocks, etc. Its drainage work has led to a considerable reduction in the malaria in the country.
The National Fund is one of the colonization agencies associated with the Keren Hayesod, the Hadassah, the Hebrew University Fund and the Mizrachi, in the $5,000,000 United Palestine Appeal.
A campaign for five thousand members was launched by New England Zionists in connection with the Zionist Organization month. At a conference at the Hotel Bellevue, Boston’s quota was determined at two thousand. Benjamin Rabalsky is Chairman of the Boston Campaign Committee. Joseph B. Abrams, secretary, Mendel N. Fisher, executive secretary.
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