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Birya Jews Win Right to Have Settlers from Other Villages Remain There

March 18, 1946
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The Jews of Galilee today won the right to have a male settlers reside in Birya, until the arrested male population of that colony is pleased.

At a meeting with the Galilee district commissioner this morning, representatives of the Council of Jewish Settlements in Galilee were informed that the Government would agree to 20 Jews remaining at Birya, if the hundreds of settlers who assembled were in recent days would leave by 2 p.m. today. The council representatives agreed.

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