The export to the Netherlands of Israeli goods valued at more than $3,000,000 during 1949 is provided under a newly signed trade agreement, it was revealed here today.
The main Israeli export will be citrus fruit3. Other items will be leather, textiles, pharmaceutical products, books and religious articles. The Netherlands will send in exchange a total of $3,000,000 worth of goods, mainly food and raw materials, for which payment is provided in a transfer of Netherlands Jewish assets and in hard currency. Signatories were the Anglo-Palestine Bank and the Netherlands Bank. The agreement provides that the two governments will soon be made parties to it.
Joseph Stalin’s name will be written into the Jewish National Fund’s Golden Book for the first time by a Zionist group in the Bulgarian city of Kasanlik, it was announced here tonight.
The Jaffa-Arab Emergency Committee, which surrendered the city to the Israeli forces last year, today asked a Tel Aviv attorney to file suit against the government for failure to live up to the terms of surrender. The Arab committee charges that the Jews requisitioned large quantities of goods valued at about $6,000,000.
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