Plans regarding the industrial development of Jerusalem were discussed today by President Chaim Weizmann and Mayor Daniel Auster at the former’s residence here.
Spurred by the Israel Goverment’s decision to start shifting its seat from Tel Aviv, plans being drawn up by various departments foresee a doubling of Jerusalem’s population within three years. This would give the new city a population of nearly 200,000 by 1953.
Those concerned with planning the future of Jerusalem are anxious to provide an economic base other than government departments, so that the city may eventually come into its own economically and not be “a city living on its officials.” Fulfillment of such a plan will require the establishment of new industries and the adjustment of the former great disproportion of officials and white-collar workers so as to spread the population’s sources of income more widely.
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