It also secures and monitors U.S. grant funds for the immigration and absorption of Jewish refugees and humanitarian migrants to Israel from countries of distress.

United Palestine Appeal was dissolved in 1930 and reconstituted in 1936 by Keren Hayesod and the Jewish National Fund.

In addition to the partnership begun in 1938, the most significant changes prior to 2000 came in 1971 as a result of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

[1] United Israel Appeal's chairman is Andy Groveman of Memphis, whose term began in November 2015.

Other past chairpersons have included Bruce A. Arbit of Milwaukee; Richard L. Wexler of Chicago, Jane Fisher Sherman of Detroit,[6] Bennett L. Aaron of Philadelphia,[7] and Shoshana S. Cardin of Baltimore.