Finance Minister Levi Eshkol will head the Joint Government-Jewish Agency committee to promote immigration from South America, it was announced here today. Other Cabinet Ministers on the Committee are Commerce and Industry Minister Pinhas Sapi, Labor Minister Yigal Allon and Social Welfare Minister Joseph Burg.
Representing the Jewish Agency on the committee will be Jewish Agency Treasurer Arieh Pincus; S.Z. Shragai, head of the immigration department; and Aharon Zisling and Arich Leib Dulcin, members of the Jewish Agency executive.
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