A plan advanced by an Israeli team of experts for the rehabilitation of refugees from the earthquake that devastated Managua, Nicaragua last Dec, has been accepted in principle by the Inter-American Bank, it was reported here. Arye Eliav, a Knesset member who was on the team studying the situation in Nicaragua, reported that the Israeli plan calls for the permanent resettlement of the refugees in the rural towns to which they fled.
The towns would be converted from asylums to redevelopment towns where most of the refugees could find homes and jobs, he said. The plan would take several years to complete and would cost an estimated $500 million, Eliav said. An Israeli team would go to Nicaragua to supervise the project. Eliav, who returned Friday, said the Israel group was the only one of several teams of foreign experts in Managua to present any plan.
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