The question of Israel’s claim for $1,500,000,000 in reparations from Germany and the situation of the Jews in Iraq were raised by Israel Ambassador Abba S. Eban and David Horowitz, Director-General of the Israeli Finance Ministry, with Secretary of State Dean Acheson today at the meeting where they handed him Israel’s request for $150,000,000 in grants-in-aid from the United States.
The Ambassador told a press conference that he had described to Secretary Acheson the “panic-stricken flight of Jews from Iraq,” spoke of the “confiscations and violence” to which the Iraqi Jews have been subjected, and informed him that Israel was raising its Iraqi immigration quota to 30,000 a month.
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