A special rehabilitation and welfare program designed to make possible the immigration to Israel of 4,000 Jewish displaced persons now in European DP camps, who are classified as “hard-core” cases owing to severe physical and mental handicaps which they suffered as a result of Nazi brutality, was outlined here today at a press conference addressed by Berl Looker, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive; Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the American section of the Agency; and Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee.
The first 15 months of the project, in which the Israel Government will take an active role, will also extend aid to aged and ill immigrants already in the Jewish state. The initial phase of the program will cost $15,000,000. The 4,000 handicapped persons in Europe who will benefit from the program total, with their dependents, a group of 9,000 persons. They are living at present in Germany, Austria and Italy.
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