A new law for compensation of victims of Nazism, covering those residents of Israel who suffered disability as a result of detention in concentration camps and who are not covered by the German restitution laws, has been drafted by the Ministry of Finance.
The new law, which is to be effective November 1, will benefit immigrants who arrived before October, 1953, who received no compensation from other sources for the time they spent in concentration camps and whose physical disabilities exceed 25 percent. The compensation for these cases, it is estimated, will cost the Treasury two million pounds annually.
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