Financial participation by the Joint Distribution Committee in a program of preliminary training given North African Jewish boys and girls in France before they leave for Israel, was announced here today by Moses Beckelman, director of activities in Europe.
The agreement was reached with the Youth Aliyah movement, which will bring these North African children to the Herbert H. Lehman home at Tambous, near Montpelier in Southern France, where they will receive a minimum of three months instruction in Hebrew, Israel geography and history, and agriculture. Afterwards they will be taken to Israel where they will be assigned to Youth Aliyah institutions and agricultural settlements.
The Alliance Israelite Universelle announced today the recent opening of two schools for Jewish communities in remote corners of Morocco. One was opened for 80 children of the 350-member Jewish community at Duereif, about 100 miles east of Fez. The other school was opened for 45 children of the 200-member community of another small town in southwest Morocco, at the edge of the desert.
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