The administrative council of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) approved a 1971 budget this week that continues aid to the Jewish community remnants in Morocco and Tunisia; includes the customary support for such organizations as the World ORT Union, the Alliance Israelite Universelle, and the scholarship fund for agricultural students in Israel; and provides aid to some 50 Israeli settlements. The JCA’s 1971 projects include construction and implementation of the Mikveh, the Israeli agricultural school, and three dormitories for 225 students; aid to the Arava agricultural laboratory and the Rehovot computer and floriculture labs, all part of the Hebrew University; the plant-genetics section of the Weizmann Institute; poultry-farming and vegetable-seeding programs in the Galilee hills; the relocation of emigrants in other countries, and housing funds in Canada, Australia, France, Belgium and Brazil. The JCA will extend the agricultural scope and economic consolidation of 13 moshavim and five kibbutzim in the Galilee, as well as ameliorating, levelling, de-stoning, terracing and irrigating of hitherto unproductive land.
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