Mordechai Barron, head of the Jewish Agency’s youth department, stressed the need of Western physicians, social workers, teachers and other professionals in new immigrant townships to hasten the integration of those communities. He said Israel was the only country in the world that was building the infra-structure of a fast-growing society within a half century, a task that takes other countries hundreds of years to accomplish.
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