For the first time in Israel’s history, immigrants arrived here with livestock. The Jewish Agency. meanwhile, revealed it has made arrangements for more immigrants to bring livestock with them.
Seven Jewish farmers from Poland arrived at Haifa yesterday with 61 head of cattle. Their families arrived two days earlier. All of them will settle near Affuleh after the cattle are released from quarantine.
There are 200, 000 Jews throughout the world willing to emigrate to Israel this year and Israel plans to take in 100, 000 of them during 1957, Zalman Shragai, chairman of the Jewish Agency’s immigration department, said today. The fact that Jews were coming from countries where there has been no Zionist or Jewish education for more than 30 years represented the greatest victory for the Zionist idea, he stated.
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