Ambassador Avraham Harman, Israel’s former envoy to the United States, advised the Association of American and Canadian Settlers in Israel last night to shelve their ambitious plans for the creation of small townships to absorb newcomers from North America and to concentrate instead on plans to absorb the few dozen immigrants who are definitely known to be coming from there this year. Ambassador Harman who was named president of the Hebrew University last week, spoke at the closing session of the association’s conference. The group decided to establish a share-holding company to construct immigrant housing for rental or purchase. It elected Eli Klein, director of the Kerem Beyavneh Yeshiva, as its president.
David Breslau, retiring president of the association, sharply criticized the Government’s handling of absorption which, he said, was administered by people who knew nothing about American immigrants. The association called for the establishment of a central authority for immigration and absorption in which the various immigrant associations would participate.
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