Execution of the plan of the American Labor Zionist movement to recruit 1, 000 immigrants to Israel in the next few years would be a “pioneer step towards a large-scale immigration movement of American Jews,” Davar, the pro-government Histadrut paper declared here today.
In a comment on the recently concluded American Labor Zionist Assembly, at which the four major organizations of Labor Zionism in the United States met. Davar says that such an immigration movement would differ basically from all other immigration into Israel which were chiefly undertaken under pressure of adverse conditions. The American immigration, however, “would be free, out of a free will with all spiritual and material possessions which they (the American immigrants) had acquired in exile.”
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