The Vaad Leumi reports to-day officially that the High Commissioner has decided to allow the 15 Jewish families from Khurdistan who were to have been deported because they entered the country illegally but whose deportation was temporarily stayed last week, to remain in Palestine, on an undertaking given by the Vaad Leumi that they are capable of supporting themselves.
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