Mordecai Dayan, secretary general of the Liberal Party in Israel, charged that one of the reasons for the difficulties in absorbing new immigrants in Israel is that most absorption officials come from kibbutzim while most new immigrants go to towns and cities. He said the Liberal Party which is a member of Likud, believes new officials are needed with a different type of mentality. Dayan, here for Aliya Month, said he did not believe that the Latin American Jewish communities were in crisis but that their leaders suffered from inertia and conformism. He said aliya cannot be achieved by decree, but by inspiration.
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