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Agree to Evacuate Hill in Israeli Territory; Joint Meeting Slated for Thursday

April 18, 1949
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The Syrian evacuation of Hill 233, a long-dieted height within the Israeli lines, which wa3 scheduled to take place tonight has ?en postponed until Wednesday, it was announced here today. The decision to evacuate ### hill was reached at an informal meeting last night between Israeli and Syrian deletes who also set an agenda for the next joint, official meeting Thursday, when it is ##ped that all technicalities will be completed and matters of substance will become ### order of business.

It was learned today that some 50 Jews, including a number of Israeli citi##ns, who have been detained by Egypt will be repatriated to the Jewish state shortly. ### transfer will be made under the auspices of the International Red Cross and was reed upon at a recent meeting of the joint Israeli-Egyptian armistice commission ##ch was created by the Rhodes armistice pact.

A new record for the number of refugee immigrants arriving in Israel was set ##ring the past four days of the Passover holidays it was revealed today with the ?ouncement that 8,056 immigrants from various European countries had disembarked in ##rael. Five hundred immigrants arrived in Haifa today aboard the Kedma.

A special research council for the state of Israel has been established in office of Premier David Ben Gurion, it was announced today. The Council will plan ### coordinate fundamental and applied research throughout Israel, It will be com##ed of twelve of the leading scientists of the Jewish state, headed by Prof, Shmuel ##usky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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