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Report on U.S. Jews Settled in Israel Presented to Convention

February 23, 1955
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A report on the successful adjustment of American settlers in Israel smallholders’ cooperative settlements was presented here today by I. Korn, general secretary of the Smallholders’ Cooperative Settlement Organization in Israel.

The report was presented to the opening session of a convention called by Hakar Haoved whose activities in this country, Mr. Korn said, have resulted in the establishment of the Orot settlement, between Rehovoth and Beersheba, where 26 Americans are now working their farms and plans are being made for 24 others to join the settlement.

Mr. Korn disclosed that the Americans who settled in Orot had their farms ready for them when they arrived. Each farmer, he said, found his house and a working irrigation set-up waiting for him, as were other farm buildings. The cost of each homestead, he reported, was between $5,000 and $6,000, one-third of which each settler had to pay down. The remainder of the cost will be paid out over 25 years. Mr. Korn came to this country to make preparations for 70 other American settlers to establish a second village similar to Orot.

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