Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin has pledged the government’s full cooperation with the Jewish Agency in a project to improve the housing situation and overall living standards for 45,000 disadvantaged families in Israel. Yadin expressed his support in a latter to Leon Dulzin, chairman of the World Zionist Organization Executive and acting chairman of the Jewish Agency who left for the U.S. today on a mission connected with the project.
Yadin, leader of the Democratic Movement for Change (DMC), coordinates social policy on the Cabinet level. He asked Dulzin to appoint Jewish Agency representatives to the joint government-agency group that will supervise the project which originated with Premier Menachem Begin. Yadin stressed that what was envisaged was “the social rehabilitation of problem neighborhoods through a coordinated program of community development which will include all the social and cultural services, physical rehabilitation, housing and in particular, the development of a community spirit of citizen participation in the planning and execution of the program.” He referred to the “complete partnership” that has evolved between himself and Dulzin in their discussions of the project. (David Landau)
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