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Israel raises the bar for sale of bonds
Gideon Selinger brought an urgent message to American Jews last week: Israel needs your investment. Selinger, the head of the Jerusalem office of Israel Bonds, had just received word on Dec. 14 from Israeli Finance Minister Avraham Shochat that the Barak government had set a 2001 goal of $1 billion in bonds sales. The country's economy has been hard hit by indirect effects of the ongoing Palestinian uprising, explained Selinger in a phone interview during his visit to Washington, D.C., on Dec. 20-21. While in the area, he met with such Israel Bonds leaders and backers as Dina Kaplan, chair of the Women's Division, and Barbara Easterling, secretary general of the Communications Workers of America.
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