Parliament’s Economic Committee urged today that the plans of the Government and the Jewish Agency to facilitate absorption of South American immigrants be “swiftly concluded.”
The committee recommended that a central institution be set up for the absorption of self-employed newcomers and that special attention be given to the needs of such immigrants bringing small and medium amounts of capital with them.
A total of 6, 000 immigrants from Latin America are expected to arrive in Israel this year, it was reported here by the Latin American Immigrants Association. A spokesman for the Association noted that 300 have already arrived in the country and an additional 600 were en route. Since the establishment of Israel, a total of 12,000 Jews from Latin America have immigrated to this country.
The spokesman noted that 70 percent of the immigrants from Latin American countries were under 35 years-of-age and most belong to the professional group. Some 40 percent of the newcomers have thus far settled in kibbutzim.
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