The Jewish Agency today announced a new plan for the absorption and resettlement of young immigrants. In the future all physically fit, unmarried men and women from 17 to 35 years of age will not be accepted in immigrant reception camps, but will be sent to a special reception camp in Haifa. There they will be given a choice of entering a work camp or joining a collective or semicollective settlement.
Another warning that the Israel Government alone cannot cope with the problem of immigrants’ absorption, but that an all-out pioneering effort is needed was given last night by Premier David Ben Gurion. The Premier spoke at Kiryat Chaim at a convention of Mapai Party workers in agricultural settlements.
Mr. Ben Gurion oritioized persons who felt that Socialism could only be “realized through the seizure of power.” Israel will not go “this way,” he stated, adding that “our method is based on voluntary effort and pioneering enterprise.”
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