Thirty-seven United Jewish Appeal leaders, in Israel on the 1975 UJA Cash Mission representing 34 communities across the United States, pledged today a maximum effort to raise $150 million in cash in the first half of 1975. As participants in an intensive five-day UJA cash fact-finding mission, their pledge was made on the basis of a first-hand study of Jewish Agency projects and budgetary allocations.
The Jewish Agency 1974-75 budget which was cut back from a rock bottom figure of $701 million to $580 million is operating on $135 million for the three-month period April-June. Harry Rosen, advisor to the chairman of the Jewish Agency, described the budget as “a budget of desperation.”
UJA national cash chairman and leader of the fact-finding mission, Gerald S. Colburn, expressed confidence that American Jewry would honor the pledge of its representatives. “We have seen the need and know what is required of us,” he said.
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