Rep. Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Immigration Subcommittee, discussed a project for the movement of North African Jews to Israel at length with Ambassador Abba Eban earlier this week, it was learned today.
Rep. Walter sailed from New York today for Israel where he will be a guest of the Israel Government. He indicated that the evacuation of 75,000 Jews from North Africa to Israel via the machinery of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration is a target of his plan. The plan is to move approximately one-third of the Jewish population of strife-torn Morocco to Israel in the next two years. Rep. Walter is expected to report on his project in Geneva at an ICEM meeting in October after he completes his visit to Israel.
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