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World Jewish Leaders Open Parley in Jerusalem Today on Economic Aid to Israel

August 9, 1967
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Sixty of the world’s leading Jewish personalities who are experts on industry and finance will begin tomorrow two days of deliberations here — at the request of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol — to help Israel increase its output for exports and find new markets as the economy returns to a peacetime status after the six-day June war.

They were invited to come to Israel to participate in an International Economic Advisory Conference for that purpose. The sessions, which will be closed to the public, will start with a frank exchange of views on Israel’s postwar economy, according to Dr. Jacob Hertzog, director-general of the Prime Minister’s office.

Israel’s financial experts will brief the participants on Israel’s economic planning for the period between now and 1971 and on the outlook until 1978. Dr. Herzog said that the two day meeting will be a preparatory effort for a larger assembly of Jewish industrial and financial leaders scheduled to be held here next April.

Among the American participants are Max M. Fisher, Philip Klutznick, Jack D. Weiler, Louis H. Boyar and William Rosenwald. European delegates include Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France, Lord Sieff and Charles Clore of Britain and Israel Klabin of Brazil.

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