Eshkol Suggests Building Smaller Housing Units for Immigrants

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March 6, 1959

JERUSALEM (Mar. 5)

Finance Minister Levi Eshkol demanded today as a cost-reducing measure smaller immigrant housing units. The proposal was opposed by Minister of Labor Mordecai Namir. The issue was discussed at a meeting of the Israel Government-Jewish Agency coordination committee.

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