German Jews who emigrated to Palestine since the Hitlerite persecutions began, brought with them $50,000,000 in capital, Dr. Arthur Ruppin and Werner Senator, of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, today informed newspapermen at a press conference.
The Jewish Agency officials declared that, in 1933 and 1934, 15,042 German Jewish immigrants entered the country. Twenty-four per cent of the total Jewish immigration during that period was from Germany.
More than 600 German Jewish
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