Premier David Ben Gurion today told a deputation of Jerusalem industrialists that all Ministers of the government have special instructions to give priority to Jerusalem in the allocation of funds for industrial developments, in the granting of loans and in the expansion of agriculture in the area surrounding the capital.
Mr. Ben Gurion told the delegation, which came to ask for special assistance to Jerusalem, that a special Cabinet meeting will be held to discuss Jerusalem’s problems. He said that he was especially interested in the absorption of immigrants into the economy of the city and suggested that the city could logically become the center for the country’s publishing industry.
The delegation asked that two immigrant work villages on the city’s outskirts be eliminated so that the immigrants could be absorbed into the city. This, the industrialists contended, with expanding building in Jerusalem, would provide more taxpayers for the financially embarrassed municipality and would eliminate a number of municipal services now supplied the immigrant camps free of charge.
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