Israel’s growing social welfare requirements and its need for Western professionals to help integrate new immigrants were put before a group of United Jewish Appeal leaders who are here on a week-long survey tour in connection with the 1969 Israel Emergency Fund campaign in the United States.
Harold Trobe, director of Malben, the Joint Distribution Committee-Jewish Agency institution for the care of ill and indigent immigrants, expressed serious concern over the freezing of the Israel Government’s budgetary allocations for social services at its current level. He said that step.
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