A call to the Jews of the world to help assure permanent dwellings for a quarter of a million Jews still residing in camps and other temporary accommodations in Israel, before the arrival of winter, was made here by Eliahu Dobkin, member of the Jewish Agency executive, who arrived on route to South America.
After describing conditions in the camps, Mr. Dobkin said plans for housing these immigrants had been made and the work could be completed before the winter rains set in if funds were forthcoming. He estimated the cost of providing this housing at $160,000,000. In the past four years, he said, permanent homes had been provided for 450,000 immigrants, of whom 170,000 had been established in abandoned Arab quarters and 280,000 in new housing.
The cost of immigration settlement and housing during the coming year, Mr. Dobkin said, would be about $300,000,000. The Israel Government, he said, could not hope to secure more than two-thirds of this sum, even with funds anticipated from the bond drive and grants-in-aid. The Jewish Agency, therefore, he said, would have to raise the remaining $100,000,000.
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