Nearly eight thousand German Jews are now in Palestine and the German department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine has 125,000 pounds with which to settle them on the land, in addition to the funds the settlers themselves have, Dr. Arthur Ruppin, head of the colonization department of the Jewish Agency, disclosed today at a press conference. Dr. Ruppin told the journalists of the plans developed by the Agency for the settlement of the German Jewish refugees.
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