Social Conditions in Latin America May Cause More Jews to Emigrate to Israel

Dr. Israel Goldstein said here today that social and economic conditions in Latin America are creating a situation that might cause more Jews to emigrate to Israel. Goldstein, chairman of the Keren Hayesod, reported on his recent Latin American visit to the Jewish Agency Executive. He said instability in Latin America is likely to be harmful to Jews because most of them belong to the middle class which is most vulnerable to social and economic upheavals. Goldstein said it was the duty of the Israel government and the Jewish Agency to make sure that the country can meet its obligations to absorb new immigrants from Latin America and anywhere else. He said this ability depended not only on the financial support of world Jewry but on the use Israel makes of the funds it receives.