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All Atlanta Invited to Celebration of Israel’s First BirtHc ay
8 P.M. Sunday May IS at Ahavath Achim Educational Center
. . we, the members of the National Council . . . hereby
proclaim the establishment of the Jewish State, in Palestine,
to be called Israel.” Prime Minister David Hen Gurion
makes the historic announcement in Tel Aviv, May 14, 1948.
“They sought peace, yet were ever prepared to defend them
selves.” In its first year, the young nation had to fight a
bitter war for its freedom. Now Israel rails immigration its
“second front,'' welcomes all newcomers.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence proclaimed it “the self-
evident right of the Jewish people to be a nation, as all other'
nations, in its own sovereign state.” Dr. Chaim Weizmann takes
the oath of office as Israel’s first president.
“Survivors of the European catastrophe as well as Jen s from,
other lands . . . have tried unceasingly to enter Palestine.”
UJfA General Chairman Henry Morgenthau, Jr., meets with
President Chaim Weizmann to plan help for newcomers.
Newcomers arrive, thousands each month, to start new
lives. UJA funds make it possible to house, clothe, feed
them until they ran get on their feet. Only complete success
of UJA’s 1250,000,000 drive can keep Israel's gates open.
UJA COMMEMORATION
DAYS MARK ISRAEL’S
FIRST BIRTHDAY
A year has passed since the State of Israel estab-
lished itself as a new nation and declared, in its Declar
ation of Independence, that “our call goes out to the
Jewish people all over the world to rally to our side in
the task of immigration and development, and to stand
by us in the great struggle for the fulfillment of the
dream of generations—the redemption of Israel
Today that call sounds again—more urgently than
ever. And only through all-out support of the United
Jewish Appeal’s $250,000,000 campaign can it be
answered. Israel has survived a turbulent first year.
Its pioneers have fought a war while they struggled to
build a nation—and never let die, even in the darkest
hour, the beacon of hope that flared high to homeless
Jews in other lands.
American Jewry, whose financial support made pos
sible the birth of the new state, is faced with the grave
responsibility of fulfilling the hopes of the homeless
who flock to Israel for the realization of their dreams
. . . the homeless who must be housed, fed, clothed—
250,000 of them this year—until they can gel on their
feet again.
The United Jewish Appeal has proclaimed the pe
riod from May 4-15 as “12 Days of Commemoration”
for Israel. The first birthday of Israel will be cele
brated in communities throughout the U. S. In the
words of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., General Campaign
Chairman of the U. J. A., “We must make their home-
iming our birthday gift to the State of Israel —
rough our support of the United Jewish Appeal.**
“We appeal to the United Nations to ... admit Israel into the
family of nations.” Government after government recognized
Israel in its first year. Here U. S. Ambassador to Israel James
C. McDonald (left) confers with Prime Minister Ben Gurion.
The President of the U. S. greets the President of Israel on a
visit to America. While in the U. S., President Weizmann said
”UJA commands the wholehearted and dedicated service of
every Jew” interested in Israel’s development.
“The re-establishment of the Jewish State . . . would solve the
problem of Jewish homelessness by opening the gates to all
Jews .. Closing of the last detention ramp on Cyprus, shown
above, represented first major accomplishment of UJA in 1949.
Show Your Interest in Israel by Generous Pledges
to the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund’s
1949 “Year of Exodus” Drive
This Message Sponsored by
FRANK GARSON
THE RINZLERS