NEW ENGLAND FUNDS TRUST II
                              
                    Growth Fund of Israel

Supplement dated March 15, 1996 to Prospectus dated December
29, 1995 replacing supplement dated December 29, 1995

The Growth Fund of Israel will commence operations on March
15, 1996.  The Subscription Period during which Class A
shares of the Fund were sold at a reduced sales charge and
during which investment dealers received a 100% reallowance
of the Class A shares sales charge ended on March 15, 1996.
Beginning March 18, 1996, Class A shares of the Fund will be
subject to the sales charges and dealers will receive the
concessions on sales of Class A shares described on page 16
of the Fund's prospectus.

The first ten representatives of participating broker
dealers and financial institutions who sell $400,000 shares
of the Fund from the beginning of the Subscription Period on
January 15, 1996 through April 30, 1996 will be invited to
attend an exclusive seminar to meet with the Fund's adviser,
subadvisers and officials of the State of Israel in
Washington, D.C., at the expense of the Distributor.