A full airing of the Palestine question is not expected to take place at the United Nations before September, Aubrey S. Eban, Israeli representative at the U.N., declared here today at a press conference. Although he expects that Israel will become a member of the world body at the April session of the U.N. General Assembly, Eban said that the session’s agenda is so crowded that it is unlikely that consideration will be given the Palestine question next month.
American Jews will have to carry the main financial border, for realization of Israel’s plan to double its population within four years, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency executive here, declared in a statement to the press. the plan, as revealed Tuesday before the Israeli parliament by Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, calls for the immigration and the complete absorption into the Israeli economy of between 750,000 and 1,000,000 Jews in the four-year period.
Dr. Goldmann pointed out that under planning already in force, the financing of this vast operation falls into two categories: 1. The cost of actual transportation of the immigrants, their reception in Israel, their training and settlement on the land; 2. In edition, an estimated two billion dollars in investment capital will be needed to give employment to the immigrants and to enable the country to produce enough to maintain its doubled population at a decent standard of living.
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