Plans for the resettlement of 60,000 immigrants and their families in “tent villages” before the rainy season starts have been worked out by the Jewish Agency’s Absorption Department and the Ministry of Labor, it was announced here yesterday.
The scheme calls for the establishment of colonies of canvas-walled, stoutroofed huts near work centers in various parts of the country. A total of 25,000 such tents will be erected near Safad, Tiberias, Hedera, Herzlia, Nathanya, Petach Tikvah, Jerusalem and Beersheba.
The largest and most modern clinic and hospital organized by the Kupat Holim the nationwide health and medical service of the Histadrut–was dedicated yesterday at Petach Tikvah. The hospital, when completed at a cost of approximately $640,000, will contain 110 rooms and will serve an area of some 150,000 persons.
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