Prime Minister David Ben Gurion told a delegation of Histadrut leaders that the “supply situation in Israel is improving” and hardships in this country will ease in a year. He emphasized that the best way to overcome the present serious shortages was to increase the agricultural and industrial output.
An official of the Jewish Agency absorption department said today that only seven percent of the country’s new immigrants had been absorbed into agriculture during 1951 as compared with 18 percent in the previous year. The Jewish Agency, he stated, was no longer constructing tents to house new immigrants but wooden huts and said that all tents now in use would be replaced by huts within a year.
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