(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Jewish population in Syria, administered by France under the mandate of the League of Nations, was denied the right to have parliamentary representation as a group, according of a decision of the electoral commission of the Syrian Constitutional Assembly.
The reason for denying group representation to the Jewish population was given as insufficiency of numbers, the commission claiming that the Syrian Jews cannot elect a special Jewish representative, since they number only 3,000. The Jewish community of Damascus protested against this ruling and submitted a memorandum in which in Syria exceeds the figure given by the commission.
The American Jewish Committee year book gives the Jewish population for Syria and Lebanon at 35,000, estimated as of 1922.
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