The Beginnings of Machne Israel Development Fund

So in the early early years I believe no in the early years the would bring some the would meet with some and then the would would bring them to the and this concept of bring donors and to to have is connected to that idea I believe but this is going back much much later in Zion when um a group of wrote bat and between name and and also between right before twice a year and surprisingly the debate set a for them the first time they weren't even planning to and uh was they started a fund is development fund to help develop and to raise bigger money from wealthy donors to give to the general kba to give mak and from there to So at some point there was there was other people running it and then they left and then Gdai was looking for somebody to run it. He asked his brother Haim Greenberg Greenberg started he was very organized and very well suited for this but he didn't know English so he needed somebody to help him. So he asked me to get involved and it entailed mostly to for the the two events that took place two usually it was like Zion and the other one was like twice a year they had to first they first was for a higher amount that it was like $100,000 over five years was the was the uh amount they have to contribute to and there was a whole VA it was rehears um and a few others. >> We wrote um quite a number of years ago we wrote a very nice article on it and I believe in that article there's the uh list of the VA. Yeah. So I started I started helping out around uh the the events around the and later slowly I was getting more and more involved until Gimber was getting married and he asked the if he should stay on and do this and go to and told to go like out and he went to and that's when he told me barely taking over. So I was still a bacha then and I was like I how can I run this important race? They said they'd be working of course with Ra Krinsky was there and Rab um Katlarski but and you know throughout the year people would make donations and they would have to get receipts and they have to be recorded and other would want wanted to sign up people and it was a whole office and then after the means sending him letters from the Reb and giving them the pictures people would order pictures they were and so on. So there's a little office in 788 room 206 and we had a little office there and at at a certain point later after after other cement also got involved but for like for like eight eight months. So I was I was responsible as a ber and um so I got to be by the as well. At that time the were in 770 downstairs and clear out all 770 set up some around made it look a little more presentable for the for the for the for theim interact with interact with the and so on. Um so also very amazing amazing privilege to be part of it. Um I remember one year. So one year I mean the last year where the Reb came to the was and they asked the Rebba when to do it and the Reb said to do it Sunday. I believe it was Zion but Sunday was giving dollars and all the all the all the all the the guests were there. So it's going to be definitely a long dollars at that time and they they panicked. They wanted to change it because how could why should they have to do dollars and then but they never wanted to specifically that date. So they decided that they're going to ask only the top donors like make a small group not a full group only the top donors and ask Kinsky to ask they should do it everybody was there everybody should be there and uh that was a it was large it was big it was growing but there was more people getting involved and more and >> because the the donors would also have like a like a with >> right so that that was the point they would they would have the opportunity to say to share it was just a few minutes to share and I to share with the just to talk. So at first it was upstairs instead of 70 and they would just walk over without a you know then the order just speak a few minutes and the man gets here with the deb's like putting all the envelopes in his pocket and his pocket is being big. It's like there's not it wasn't really coordinated well in that sense. It was supposed to be like a quick uh but then when it came downstairs and especially when Gre got involved it was very very organized. They we put a we made a step up, you know, a higher step and and it was table and organized a special way of going and we even >> by the way in this month when did he get involved? >> Yeah. I think it was even >> like if you look in the upcoming magazine >> in the section there's a whole slide of pictures from and you already see how it's developed and it's a nice event at that point already. It was yeah he he he did a lot and at that time I remember we we even scheduled when people should go and gave them like a general sense of when they're going to go and I remember and and it was it was it was hard for the I mean it's like the whole day of dollars especially that with tough bay remember it was um bay I'm sorry it was a whole day of dollars and then the came down then the at 100 a.m. And I don't think there was even a break between dollars and they never spoke a g and then went together to then for the never gave dollars to everybody all the and anybody who was there. I never felt comfortable taking a dollar by as a because I didn't really feel that I belonged there you know asking what everybody doing over there. So I didn't I never took a dollar or atl once I uh there was two balat wanted to sign up. It was probably and I wanted to I told Kritzky to tell the rebal want to sign up. So they were friends of Ammy Pakovski. So they told us so was always out you know he was so I sent him a fact. So my fax machine to his fax machine and I said that these people are writing to asking for and I wrote I sign my name. So he shows me the facts afterwards that the answered on the facts and something else and something else. Three words. And I was shocked. I was like, "You gave the Reba my paper with my battle." Like I I wasn't I meanted you to tell him what he I'm supposed to be giving the like paper like that. Anyway, that's that's that's what he did. Anyways, >> that's what happened. That's what happened.