The American Jewish Committee appreciates Israel’s needs which must be met to enable her to carry out the tasks of rehabilitation and absorption of new immigrants, Jacob Blaustein, president of the American Jewish committee and spokesman for an A.J.C. delegation now visiting Israel at the invitation of Premier David Ben Gurion, said today at a press conference.
The A.J.C. will do everything possible to aid the United Jewish Appeal campaign and to assist in the investment of private capital in Israel, Blaustein added. The Committee deputation earlier visited several immigrant reception centers and members of the delegation reported that they were very favorably impressed with Israel’s achievements in this field, adding that large-scale housing programs were the Jewish state’s primary need.
Blaustein and other members of the Committee delegation yesterday met with Hen Gurion, Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan and Immigration Minister Moshe Shapira and discussed the current needs of the Jewish state.
Harry Greenstein, advisor on Jewish affairs to Gen. Lucius D. Clay, military governor of the U.S. zone of Germany, and to Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, American com##mder in Austria, arrived in Israel yesterday “to meet the Israeli officials concerned and review with them as well as to see at first hand the extent to which Is-?el is absorbing and can absorb the Jews who want to come here.”
Only 50,000 displaced Jens remained in Germany and Austria as of April 1, he said. Greenstein voiced the hope that the Jewish DP camps would be emptied by December, except for 5,000 physically disabled persons concerning whom negotiations were in progress with the International Refugee Organization.
(Reuters reported from Tel Aviv today that Israeli military police wearing ?as masks threw gas bombs to drive out more than 100 former policemen from the head-quarters of the Criminal Investigation Department. The policemen–who were dismissed during a recent inquiry of Israeli Government officials who served during the British Mandate period–were staging a sitdown strike in protest against their firings.)
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