Coordinated efforts for action to restore the civil and economic rights, relief and emigration of Jews in Arab countries were agreed on at a meeting of the International Council on Jewish Social and Welfare Services, Murray I. Gurfein of New York, chairman, said today after the meeting.
Mr. Gurfein, former president of United Hias Service, said that the Jews in Arab countries “must not be forgotten in this crisis.” It was noted that in some Arab countries, the governments had acted to maintain law and order for Jewish nationals during the hysteria of the June Arab-Israeli war and the impact of the Israeli victory on the populations of the Arab countries but that others had permitted “shameful treatment” of their Jewish nationals.
Mr. Gurfein added that the meeting had decided to intensify the collection of information on conditions of Jews in Middle East countries through the secretariat of the International Council in Geneva. The Council, organized in 1961, is composed of the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Central British Fund, the Jewish Colonization Association, the ORT, the Standing Conference on European Community Services, and Hias.
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