2,624 immigrants registered officially with the Palestine police up to the middle of December 1931, when the amnesty granted by the Palestine Government in connection with the recent census for the legalisation of the stay of immigrants who entered the country illegally lapsed. 1,080 immigrants registered in Jerusalem, 1,133 in Tel Aviv and the neighbouring colonies, and 411 in Haifa, Tiberias and the vicinity. Many of them are heads of families and the Hebrew Labour daily “Davar” estimates that between 5,500 and 6,000 people have thus had their position legalised.
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