Israel Histadrut Campaign.

The Israel Histadrut Campaign, an annual fundraising campaign associated with the National Committee for Labor Israel, supports the health, education, and welfare programs of the Histadrut in Israel. The National Labor Committee was organized in New York in 1923 and began their first campaign, to raise $300,000 for the organized Jewish workers (subsequently Histadrut) in Palestine. The Cleveland campaign began the same year, with William Goldberg of the Jewish Carpenters Union as chairman and Louis Skolnik, architect, as secretary. The campaign, called the Gewerkshaften Campaign, had eighteen affiliated labor and Zionist organizations in Cleveland by 1929. In 1940, when the campaign began to be called the Histadrut Campaign, the twenty-seven local affiliates included a number of landsmanshaften in addition to the labor and Zionist organizations. The 1939-1940 campaign in Cleveland raised $6,390. During the 1983-1984 campaign, $70,400 was raised. Histadrut programs in Israel include vocational schools, youth villages, community centers, senior citizen housing, and the Kupat Cholim, Israel's largest health service. Specific projects sponsored by the Cleveland Israel Histadrut Campaign include the Max and Eva Apple Children's Village in Gan Yavne, Lester Blaushild Vocational High School in Safed, Rabbi Armond E. Cohen Synagogue in Safed, Louis and Fanny Skolnik Library in Kiryat Segal, and Paul and Eva Shapiro Seamen's Clinic in Haifa, among many others.

From the guide to the Israel Histadrut Campaign Records, 1923-1984, (Western Reserve Historical Society)