A house and homestead, at a moderate price, in a fast growing rural area of Israel where employment is assured, is offered to Americans skilled in the operation and maintenance of agricultural and automotive equipment, it was announced today by the Jewish Agency.
Moshe Lefebre, ### representative of the Union of Private Farmers in Israel, declared the offer was directed primarily to truck and tractor drivers and mechanics familiar with modern agricultural machinery. Such urgently needed tehcnicians are now being recruited by the Immigration Department for numerous middle class settlements of Israel, the nature of which, he explained, is a synthesis between private enterprise and cooperative farming.
An outstanding example of this type of community is afforded by four villages in the fertile coastal belt south of Tel Aviv, populated by middle class immigrants from England, Poland, Egypt and Iraq, Mr. Lefebre said. This community will be joined shortly by a village of American settlers for which homesteaders–farmers as well as technicians–are being sought.
Available to the technicians in this community is a new three-room house with a small plot of land suitable for vegetable gardening. The required investment is about $4,000. Available for farmers is the house plus six-and-a-half acres of land complete with livestock and farming implements, requiring an investment of about $8,400. Up to $2, 400 of this sum may be had, if necessary, on a long term loan from the Jewish Agency. Terms of the investment may vary according to circumstances.
Mechanics, truck and tractor drivers, who buy the house with a small parcel of land, are assured of employment in either own or one of the neighboring villages, Mr. Lefebre said. Farmers purchasing the entire tract are free to engage in any branch of agriculture they choose and will own their land, stock and implements. Only heavy agricultural equipment is owned by the community which also provides water for irrigation and electric power.
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