Israel’s concentration on the absorption of immigrants, and the country’s dependence on foreign loans, voluntary collections abroad and other such means for the financing of social welfare development programs, have made it impossible for the Jewish State thus far to plan educational and health services on an overall basis.
These views were presented in a survey today to the Social Commission, a unit of the United Nations Social and Economic Council, which started its three-week session here this afternoon The survey deals with programs of social development around the world. Israel is one of the 18 member nations of the Commission and is represented at the present session by G.G. Lotan, of the Israel Labor Ministry.
The survey reviews Israel’s social development plans and stresses Israel’s absorption of tens of thousands of immigrants. It points out that social science organization in Israel conduct surveys relating to specific problems, such as immigration and absorption of immigrants housing, delinquency, youth matters and employment in general, however, the report asserts, in Israel, as is usually the case in pioneering countries, research related to physical planning gets priority over social research.
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