Cojanor, the leading Jewish welfare organization in France, reported today that some 80 percent of all Jewish refugees who came to France from Egypt in the 1956-57 anti-Jewish upheaval have been integrated into the French Jewish community or helped to emigrate for final resettlement.
Cojanor officials said that some 1,600 Egyptian Jewish refugees families applied for help. Of these, only 300 still were on the agency’s assistance rolls. The record was considered particularly notable in that it was necessary to find homes and apartments for a large number of the families, which was managed despite the very serious housing shortage in France.
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