Jewish immigrants to Australia from Eastern European countries are “adjusting very well and are helping to strengthen the Australian Jewish community,” Carlos L. Israels, president of United Hias Service, reported today.
Mr. Israels’ report followed several conferences which Leon Fink, president of the Australian Jewish Welfare and Welfare Society of Melbourne, had with him and other United Hias officials, including James Rice, executive director. The Australian Jewish community leader emphasized at these conferences that “by strengthening our numbers through immigration into our country with United Hias cooperation we have made important headway toward survival in a religious and cultural sense.”
Since 1947, the Jewish population in Australia has increased from 32, 000 to 65, 000, primarily through immigration. The two main centers of Jewish population are Melbourne and Sydney, Mr. Israels stated in his report. During the past four years, more than 5,000 Jews from Europe, as well as Egypt and North Africa, were resettled in Australia through the joint efforts of the local Jewish community and the migration agency.
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