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Number of Unemployed Persons in Israel Now 8,500, Mapam Deputy Claims in Knesset

May 18, 1949
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The number of unemployed persons now in Israel has reached the figure of 8,500, Hans Rubin, Mapam deputy, declared today at a session of the Knesset. A demand by Rubin that “urgent” discussion be given by the Israeli Parliament to the problem of unemployment was not acted upon.

Deputy Hillel Kook, speaking for the Herut, urged the Knesset to discuss the Israeli proposals submitted to the Lausanne conference called by the U.N. Conciliation Commission for Palestine. This suggestion, too, was not acted on after it was announced that the subject will be discussed by the Knesset’s foreign affairs committee.

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