The Jewish Agency’s aliya department has arranged a program for olim to help development towns. This week a group of 16 students at the Kibbutz Ulpan at Hulda spent time at Ofakim, near Beersheba, refurbishing and decorating homes there for elderly townsfolk who could not do their home repairs themselves. Next week 30 students from the Alonim Kibbutz Ulpan will go to Ofakim to continue the good work.
The aliya department also reported today that it had formed two libraries of Russian and Spanish books to serve Soviet and South American olim in hostels in the Nazareth and Nahariya areas. Two further libraries in Russian and Spanish are planned for Dimona and Arad–and two mobile libraries to service the north and south of the country travelling from hostel to hostel.
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