Nahalal, the Jewish agricultural settlement in Emek, will be converted this summer into a modern township with newly-built concrete houses, according to a plan worked out by Dr. Maurice Hexter, head of the colonization department of the Jewish Agency Executive.
A special budget prepared by the department and unanimously approved by the Executive provides that by this summer forty families in Nahalal—half of the total number of Jewish families there—will be transferred from their old wooden barracks, in which they have been living since the establishment of the colony, to the new three-room houses.
These buildings, which will cost about £200 each, will be given to the Jewish colonists upon an initial payment of £25, the remainder of which is to be paid instalments.
The school and clubrooms are being equipped with radio so as to give the colonists of Emek a sense of communication with the distant countries and cities.
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