Several hundred immigrants who are housed in Lydda and Ramleh today demonstrated in front of the Knesseth and government offices here, demanding employment.
Delegations of the demonstrators were received by the Secretariat of the Khesseth and by the Labor Department. They were assured that the government is aware of the acuteness of their position and is completing plans for full rehabilitation of the newcomers.
Ten thousand tents will be erected in Israel within a fortnight in an effort to relieve the desperate housing shortage, Jewish Agency treasurer Dr. Israel Goldstein revealed during the week-end. The tents, purchased at a cost of over $5,000,000 in Belgium and Cyprus, will be erected in areas where work but not housing is available for immigrants. Dr. Goldstein said this was one of many makeshift arrangements which the Agency must make at this time because it does not have sufficient funds for the construction of permanent housing.
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