Israel’s military successes in the Six-Day War have made increased immigration into the country a “foremost necessity,” and governmental administrative apparatus has been “radically reorganized” in the face of this situation, A.L. Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive committee, said today. He told officers of the British Zionist Federation that a joint committee of Israel cabinet ministers and executive members of the Agency has been made responsible for the practical planning of immigration and for the absorption of immigrants. Immigration administration has now been centralized in one department, he said.
Mr. Pincus said that, while there was still unemployment in some sectors of the Israeli economy, there was also a noticeable lack of manpower in others. He said a number of concessions for new immigrants has already been agreed upon, including lower taxation, housing facilities and free Ulpanim (intensive instruction in Hebrew).
Mr. Pincus said that the dangers Israel faced just before the war and her subsequent victories had aroused a deeper sense of solidarity in every Jewish community throughout the world. There was an active interest in Israel’s post-war problems, he said; and he called upon the world Zionist movement to “give meaningful direction to these awakened creative energies.” In view of these circumstances, Mr. Pincus said, the Jewish Agency Executive felt it “imperative” to advance by a year the date of the World Zionist Congress. The new date is February, 1968, in Jerusalem.
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