About 500 youngsters from Germany will be settled in Palestine during the current year by the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews in Palestine.
Miss Henrietta Szold, chairman of the children’s section of the bureau, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that about 200 have already been placed in Ben Shemen, children’s village, and in Ain Harod.
The children range between the ages of fifteen to seventeen. Three hundred and fifty certificates have been awarded for them by the Jewish Agency of the Palestinian government. An additional hundred certificates have been given by the government to Ben Shemen’s children’s village.
The Jewish Agency will be responsible for the children until they reach the age of eighteen and subsequently will be permitted to enter kwutzths (colonies) or enter trades. Parents are to bear half of the cost of their maintenance.
Periodical reports will be submitted to parents by the agency.
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