News Brief

NEED TO ENCOURAGE MIDDLE CLASS IMMIGRATION TO ISRAEL STRESSED

A resolution welcoming the establishment by the Jewish Agency of a fund to promote the absorption of middle class immigrants in Israel was adopted at the closing session of the Actions Committee. The resolution lauded the activities of the Agency’s economic department in the fields of encouraging middle class immigration, mobilization of capital, encouragement of investments in Israel and supplying economic information and guidance.

Recommending expansion of these activities both in Israel and abroad, the Actions Committee requested the Jewish Agency executive to continue its negotiations with the Israel Government for the purpose of ensuring government participation in productive integration of middle class settlers.

The Actions Committee demanded in its resolution that the activities in behalf of middle class immigration be intensified. It welcomed the efforts made for the absorption of specialists and professionals and urged increased immigration of this type of immigrant.

In other resolutions; the Actions Committee commended the UJA leadership for launching a special rescue fund in the United States. It called on every Zionist in every Jewish community in the United States to contribute to the campaign for the further implementation of the work of “ingathering of the exiles.”

One of the resolutions directed the Jewish Agency executive and Zionist organizations in various countries to work towards establishing educational and cultural institutions in the Diaspora. It also asked for the raising of standards in Hebrew schools by improvement in the study of the Hebrew language and Hebrew literature, Bible study and Israelology, and by the publication of a series of textbooks adapted to the requirement of the Diaspora. (More resolutions–in tomorrow’s issue of the Bulletin.)