The Jewish Agency immigration and absorption department is considering an idea which may prove to be a turning point in the process of housing new immigrants. The department wants to give new immigrants who will settle in the newly planned town of Maole Adumim (just east of Jerusalem) the option of purchasing the flat they will reside in during their first period in Israel. These immigrant flats will be first built as part of an absorption center to be established in the new town, but immigrants will be able–if the plan materializes — to purchase those flats and make them into their permanent homes. Construction in two stages of 1600 housing units will begin April 15.
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