A joint meeting of representatives of the Israeli Government and the Jewish Agency here last night approved a plan providing for the expenditure for a $12,000,000 housing program for newly-arriving immigrants. The cost of the program will be shared equally by the government, the Agency and the Jewish National Fund.
The meeting also named a three-member committee–composed of President Chaim Weizmann, Meir Ebner, veteran Zionist leader, and a government representative–to arrange for the transfer of the remains of Dr. Theodor Herzl from Austria to Israel. It is expected here that the transfer of Herzl’s remains and reinterment in Israel will be completed shortly.
Other items on the agenda were postponed for next week’s meeting of the joint committee. The question of convening the Agency’s plenary meeting in Jerusalem in February, to discuss Israeli Government-Jewish Agency relations, was also put off for consideration next week.
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