In increasing numbers, concerned American Jews are joining UJA missions to Israel, evidencing a dramatic solidarity with her people, Paul Zuckerman. United Jewish Appeal general chairman announce today. “Now, more than ever before, American Jewry wants to be with the people of Israel,” Zuckerman said. “They go to stand at their brothers’ side…to talk to them…to listen to their leaders…to share the life-renewing first hours of incoming immigrants.”
The UJA has placed increased emphasis on its People-to-People Missions to Israel, which are carried out with the cooperation of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds. Missions are presently projected to run not only during the spring but throughout the entire year, each and every week, according to Zuckerman. The special weekly missions which depart from New York every Sunday–instituted shortly after the Yom Kippur War–are designed to provide Jewish communal leaders with first-hand information for the planning and execution of 1974 nationwide campaign efforts on behalf of the Israel Emergency Fund of the UJA.
“These weekly missions are planned to give the largest number of people possible a direct, personal experience in Israel,” Louis F. Goldman, a UJA national chairman from Dayton, Ohio, and chairman of UJA’s Mission Committee, said, “Our presence there is a highly visible sign of our support in this most critical hour for Israel’s people. In November-December, more than 900 people participated in UJA missions to Israel, and many hundreds more are expected to participate in january and again in February,” Goldman continued. “And in all cases, mission members have reassessed their commitments while in Israel, with outstanding campaign results.”
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