Israel’s severe housing shortage, stemming in large measure from high construction costs, will be the subject of discussions by 15 leading experts on housing from Israel and abroad which will open here next week. The experts will tour building sites and will draw up a report for submission to the Housing Ministry and the Jewish Agency suggesting ways to reduce costs and alleviate the problem.
The meeting will be opened by Jack Weller, a member of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors and chairman of its housing committee. Housing Minister Zeev Sharef will participate along with the owners of building companies in the US. France, Britain and Israel and experts from the Haifa Technion and other Israeli universities.
Approximately 400 students, the majority non-Jewish, are attending Sao Paolo’s University’s Institute for Jewish Studies courses which include Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish philosophy, literature, sociology and history.
An estimated 150,000 persons from Arab and Moslem countries having no diplomatic relations with Israel are expected to visit there this year under the summer visits program.
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