The World Zionist Organization Executive heard details today of large-scale settlement projects all over Israel in the next four years. Prof. Ra’anan Weiz, head of the WZO’s settlement department, disclosed plans for 37 new rural settlements to be completed between now and 1978, providing for a population of 44,000 families. He also proposed 176 new settlements in northern and southern Israel to be built by the end of the decade.
The WZO Executive will present the plans to the Jewish Agency Assembly when it convenes here in June with the recommendation that it be submitted for approval to the World Zionist Congress next January. The settlement projects were described by WZO Executive members as a great challenge to the younger generation of Israelis and an incentive for aliya.
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