Almost half of the French Moroccan Jews who arrived here last week as refugees from the pogroms there have already been settled in their own homes. A total of 264 of the new arrivals — of 599 who made up that initial transport–are today in their own houses, one house to a family, with two surrounding acres of irrigated land, and an assurance of immediate jobs at prevailing wage rates.
The new arrivals are beneficiaries of the new policy being implemented by the Jewish Agency. Instead of being taken to transitory camps, as immigrants had been until now, they are settled immediately on arrival, being taken to new, permanent homes straight from the ships.
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