The Joint Distribution Committee will take over full responsibility for financing immigration to Israel in 1956, Charles Jordan, acting director general of the JDC, declared here today in his first statement since his appointment to the post. The JDC will take over this responsibility, Mr. Jordan added, because neither the Israel Government nor the Jewish Agency is financially able to continue to bear these costs and there are many thousands of Jews waiting to go to Israel.
Continuing his discussion of the JDC’s responsibilities for 1956, Mr. Jordan outlined the three other major areas of work for his organization caring for the aged ill and handicapped among the immigrants to Israel; raising the standards of life for the Jews in the Moslem countries, and helping Jewish communities in Europe rebuild a communal life while at the same time caring for their needy. Mr. Jordan said that the JDC would fulfill its responsibilities for immigration and other programs even if “we have to borrow money and mortgage our future.”
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