The Knesset Finance Committee decided today to appropriate an additional $1.4 million over and above the regular budget, to ease the condition of financially underprivileged elements in society. Half the money will be earmarked to provide essentials to an estimated 5000 families living under the poverty level and the balance will go toward the rehabilitation of the aged and retarded and for vocational training centers for poor youth. Committee chairman Israel Kargman said he wanted to “ensure that there will not be a child in the country without his own bed or mattress nor a family without a heating stove or an ice box.”
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