None of the 75,000 immigration certificates nade available to the Jewish Agency under the White Paper of 1939 are left, it was announced here today by Eliahu Dobkin, Agency immigration chief. Seventy-two thousand were distributed by the Agency, and the last 3,000 directly by the Palestine Government, when the Agency refused to accept any further certificates while the White Paper restrictions remained in force.
Mr. Dobkin said that 12,700 refugees entered Palestine in the Jewish year 5705, which ended the beginning of September. He disclosed that three “aid units” which will work under UNRRA exclusively for Jewish refugees are leaving this week. Two are going to Italy and one to Germany.
The Agency, Dobkin said, has overcome various difficulties involved in taking Jews out of Eastern European countries within the Russian sphere and it is now pessible for Jews to emigrete from almost every European country-were certificates available.
As a result of a drive for clothing among Jews here, Dobkin said, enough to clothe 40,000 refugees has been obtained and will be sent next week to Brindisi in Italy, on a specially chartered ship. The clothing will be distributed to refugee Jews in Italy and Germany and to Polish Jews who are presently in Czechoslovakia.
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