Dutch trade unions will build a $1.6 million holiday bungalow camp for their members on a site near Tel Aviv on which the unions have taken an option, it was announced hero today by Senator A. H. Kloos, president of the Socialist Trade Union of the Netherlands. The colony will have a capacity of 400 beds. Senator Kloos was one of a group of Dutch trade union leaders who visited Israel recently. They also visited Arab refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and said they were very depressed by what they had seen. Dr. Jef Tans, president of the Dutch Labor Party has left for Israel at the invitation of Mapai.
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