The Jewish Agency aliya and absorption departments have embarked on preparatory plans to cope with an expected immigration of 100,000 Soviet Jews a year as a result of the U.S.-Soviet agreement expected to be concluded shortly.
Moshe Rivlin, director general of the Jewish Agency, said today in Haifa at a press conference that while it is known that 130,000 Soviet Jews have applied for exit visas for emigration to Israel, many more tens of thousands will apply for exit visas once the Russians reverse their policy of persecuting and harassing Jews who seek to emigrate.
Referring to the problem of housing, Rivlin said that by the end of 1975, 27,000 apartment units will be. ready for new immigrants, and an effort will be made to increase construction for new immigrants in the year to come.
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