An absorption center will be built, in the Kiryat Arba quarter of Hebron, it was announced here by Uzi Narkiss, director general of the aliya and absorption department of the Jewish Agency. He disclosed that he had received approval in principle from the Jewish Agency Executive to build the new center. Narkiss predicted that in the beginning immigrants might hesitate to come and live in Hebron, but in the long run the center would be fully occupied.
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