One thousand young volunteers from overseas arrived in Israel during the war and are all working on kibbutzim in place of mobilized members. One thousand more are expected to arrive shortly, Mordechai Bar-On, head of the World Zionist Organization youth and halutz department told a Zionist Executive meeting here yesterday. Half the volunteers came from the U.S., the rest mainly from Britain and Europe. All paid their own fares, and all undertook to remain for six months. Bar-On said there had been a wave of some 50,000 volunteers at the start of the war, and his department’s offices around the world carefully sorted them out choosing only the most serious and suitable.
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