A contract for $3,500,000 worth of telephone and teletype equipment was today signed in the offices of Dr. F. E. Shinnar, head of the Israel purchasing mission in Germany. The contract obligates German manufacturers to supply a variety of equipment, including electronic devices, as reparations goods for Israel.
The materials will be used to install automatic interurban telephone exchanges in Israel’s central sector, as well as to tie in the most far-flung of Israel’s settlements with the main centers of population and defense by a radio-telephone network. The initial automatic exchanges will be set up in the area between Tel Aviv and Acre, including the Haifa industrial and port zone.
The teletype’ machines will enable business firms in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Beersheba and Tiberias to conduct business transactions over the wires, for the first time in Israel. The machines will be owned by the Post Office, which will rent them to individual users on a monthly fee basis.
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