The Jewish Agency has instructed all international airlines to transport to Israel, at the Agency’s expense, any expelled Egyptian Jew who asks to go there, it was revealed here today at a meeting of the Agency executive.
Contacts have been established with various international organizations to cooperate in the transportation and absorption of the deported Jews, Zalman Shazar, acting chairman of the executive told the meeting. Top priority will be given to the absorption of the expellees.
The permanent Agency-Israel Government immigration coordination committee will meet next Sunday to make plans of the reception of an anticipated large-scale immigration of Egyptian Jews.
(In Cairo, Egyptian Minister of Interior Lt. Col. Zakariah Mohyeddin, told the correspondent of the New York Times yesterday that “only 288 Jews” were being detained in Egypt “for security reasons,” that they are being held in Jewish schoolhouses, and that their names had been given to the International Red Cross with a request that efforts be made to get them out of the country as quickly as possible. He admitted that Jewish assets have been sequestered.)
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