The Jewish Agency today assigned $50,000 for the relief of the Jewish settlements in the Emek where the recent plague of field mice did considerable damage to the crops. The action of the Jewish Agency is prompted by the government’s failure to do anything about it thus far. In the meantime the government has refused to exempt from freight charges the seed sent by the Jewish Agency to the Emek settlers. In this connection the Hebrew press recalls that during the drought in the southern part of the country two years ago the government gratuitously transported cattle of the bedouins to the north for pasturing.
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