Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin today issued a statement giving his impressions of Israel and praising highly the vocational training activities conducted by the ORT there.
Emphasizing that he had little time to see all the things he wanted during his recent visit to the Jewish state, Secretary Tobin said that “Israel is in great need of skilled workers of all kinds in order to develop a stable economy.” Without these workers, he declared, Israel cannot produce the manufactured goods it needs to sustain a vigorous export trade.
“The problem of vocational training to teach the thousands of newly arrived immigrants in Israel is vast and urgent,” he pointed out. “The ORT, to a great degree, is partially filling this wide gap in Israel’s economy.” The U.S. Secretary of labor visited ORT schools in Israel where 1,300 students receive training in general mechanics, auto mechanics, watch making, dental mechanics, sewing and dressmaking, locksmith work and carpentry. “I was deeply impressed by the creative and constructive work being done,” he reported in his statement today. He also praised the ORT’s courses for demobilized soldiers.
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