Needy Holocaust survivors in Israel can begin applying next month for payments from a $180 million fund for Shoah victims set up by Swiss banks and industry in 1997, according to an Israeli Finance Ministry official. Those survivors with a monthly income below $875 will be eligible to apply, the official added Monday. The head of an umbrella organization for Israeli survivors, Noah Flug, complained that the application process is beginning months after American survivors received money from the same fund. Flug blamed government bureaucracy in Israel for the delay.
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