Consideration of the position of Jewish communities in Arab states, particularly in Iraq which has a Jewish population of 100,000, will be given by the Israeli Knesseth on Monday when it resumes its sessions here, it was reported today, when the Knesseth adjourned its meeting to next week.
The Israeli Government is also expected to issue a formal statement on the subject following Monday’s Khesseth meeting. Premier David Ben Gurion refused to grant a request of Heruth members in the Knesseth that a discussion of armistice agreements with the Aral countries be initiated, asserting such a discussion was premature.
Earlier, the Khesseth approved a government-sponsored proposal for the setting up of nine parliamentary sub-committees. A motion that the sub-committees be allowed to submit independent recommendations to the Knesseth was also approved.
S.S. Kalamaro, Moroccan veteran Zionist leader, emphasized at a meeting of Jewish Agency officials here today the need for increased Jewish emigration from Morocco. Ninety percent of the 250,000 Jews in Morocco, he said, live in extreme poverty and are completely under the Sultan’s authority, while Jews in other North African countries enjoy the protection of French authorities. He revealed that a total of 12,000 Moroccan Jews have reached Israel to date.
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