The prevailing austerity and stringent economic conditions in Israel are not the result of an economic depression brought on by near sightedness or miscalculation but rather “the inevitable concommitant of immigration and rehabilitation voluntarily and freely being carried on by the people of Israel,” Rabbi Irving Miller, president of the American Jewish Congress, reported today at a meeting of the National Administrative Committee, the governing council of the organization, at the Stephen Wise Congress House.
Declaring that he regarded it as “unfortunate “that reports now being brought back from Israel are emphasizing these negative aspects, Rabbi Miller, who just returned from the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, charged that they serve to obscure the more significant fact which is that Israel represents the greatest and most inspiring venture in human rehabilitation today.
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