Jewish community leaders here today stressed the urgent need for more funds from American Jewry, through the Joint Distribution Committee, to meet the needs created by the major influx of immigrants reaching France from North Africa. Leaders of the Fonds Social Juif Unifie, the major Jewish wiefare agency here, said the organization must extend its services due to the steep increase of arrivals from North Africa.
Most of the newcomers reaching metropolitan France are from Tunisia. Some 10,000 Tunisian Jews–about three-fourths of them holding Tunisian nationality, while the remainder are French citizens–came to France since the Bizerte affair, when the Tunisians fought the French around France’s big naval base at Bizerte.
Since the start of 1962, about 200 Tunisian Jews have reached Marseilles, and more are expected. The only aid available for the refugees now is a “housing fund” supplied jointly by the American Joint Distribution Committee and Fonds Social Juif Unifie.
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