The steady departure of Jews from Tunisia in recent years has left a welfare problem in which the Joint Distribution Committee is providing aid to 8,635–one third–of the remaining 25,000 Jews in Tunisia, Charles H. Jordan, JDC executive chairman, reported today. There were 75,000 Jews in Tunisia in 1957.
He made the disclosure in announcing the appointment of Albert Sheldon of New York, as director of JDC services in Tunisia. He said the decline in the Tunisian Jewish population had not been matched by “a parallel decrease in needs.” Mr. Sheldon served as assistant JDC director in Tunisia for the past two years.
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