The Austrian Cabinet approved yesterday a grant of 3,500,000 schillings ($140,000) to the Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation, as legal successor to the Hechalutz, the Jewish pioneer organization which conducted in pre-war Austria a number of workshops and farms which the Nazis confiscated in 1938.
The money will be used to erect a seminary for foreign students in Israel. The Cabinet also approved a draft to satisfy claims of existing centers for heirless property. The amounts and beneficiaries have not yet been disclosed.
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