The cornerstone for a new $6,000,000 housing project to provide 1,350 housing units for new immigrants was laid near Tel Aviv today. The project will form part of a new suburb of Tel Aviv.
Sixty new settlements will be founded in Israel during the next six months, It was announced today by Yehuda Horin, director of the Jewish Agency’s settlement department. According to present plans, ho said, 10,000 new immigrant families will be settled soon in 18 of the proposed new colonies.
According to Israeli Government plans for development of the country, 20 percent of the nation’s population will be employed on the land in agricultural pursuits, the Ministry of Agriculture said today.
This population ratio, it said, should make the country self-sufficient in production of dairy products, poultry and eggs and give it 50 percent of its bread grain requirements.
A Ministry spokesman explained that the area devoted to the growing of vegetables had been doubled in the last year and that it would be redoubled by the end if this year. This would give Israel 4,000,000 dunams devoted to the cultivation of vegetables.
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