200 EUROPEAN PHYSICIANS, 164 ENGINEERS ENTERED ISRAEL IN SIX MONTHS
The renewal of European immigration has brought 600 professionals to Israel during the second half of the 1956-1957 fiscal year, the report says. Among these experts were nearly 200 doctors, 164 engineers, 62 economists, 35 chemists, 22 research scientists, as well as a number of lecturers, journalists and similar specialists.
The Jewish Agency maintains 48 “Ulpan” courses for intensive instruction in Hebrew for immigrants for whom Hebrew language facility is basic to their work. A total of 4,800 immigrants, including 2,000 with academic education, are now studying in these courses, according to the report.
The report also disclosed that despite the great increase in immigration, the number of immigrants in temporary housing declined. At the end of March, 1956, 135,000 immigrants lived in such housing, including 46,000 in the maabarot. One year later, by March 1957, the total in temporary dwellings was 125,000, including only 32,000 in the maabarot, the flimsiest type of temporary housing.
Fifty percent of the total newcomers during the past year were initially housed in makeshift dwellings, 17 percent received housing with relatives or by their own efforts, 13 percent were permanently settled in agriculture and the remainder received public housing.
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