The Israeli Knesset was asked today to levy a special “absorption tax” to raise 3,500,000 pounds (approximately $14,000,000) for the immediate construction of temporary housing for at least 20,000 newly-arrived immigrant families. The proposal, offered by Hershel Frumkin, Mapai deputy, also Urged that all possible steps be taken to ease the critical housing situation in reception centers for new arrivals in Israel.
Approximately 80 families today established a new Agudas Israel workers’ settlement in an abandoned Arab village in southern Israel, Two hundred and fifty additional family units will be settled in the colony within the next few weeks. The settlement extends over 23,000 dunams of fertile lands. It is planned to set up workshops and small factories in the new colony.
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