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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
ISrael Cabinet voted to impose
a special tax ranging from 6
to 12 percent of the income
of each citizen, for the purpose
of helping the settlement of
the Jewish immigrants arriv-
ing here from Romania, Po-
land and other countries.
Approval of the decision will
be sought in the Parliament,
when the Cabinet will present
a bill for enactment. The spe-
cial tax is expected to pro-
vide 40,000,000 Israeli pounds
($22,000,000) extra fol. immi-
grant absorption.
The urgent need for housing
for the new immigrants was
considered here at a meeting
of a subcommittee of the co-
ordinating board of the govern-
ment and the Jewish Agency
under the chairmanship of Levi
Eshkol, Minister of Finance.
The committee dealt with plans
to finance housing construction,
the speed-up of construction,
and distribution of the new
immigrants throughout the
country.
Officials of the government
and the Jewish Agency report-
ed that 60 Romanian families,
who were settled in the Negev
in the southern desert, in re-
cent months, have been found to
constitute an excellent element
and have already adapted them-
selves. The adjustment to set-
tlement life took place despite
the fact that the newcomers
were inexperienced agricultur-
ally, being mostly clerks and
artisans. As a result, plans
have . been completed for the
settlement of another 100 fami-
lies there in the next few
weeks. The 60 families are in
the 35 to 40 year age bracket
and the average family num-
bers four persons, it was re-
ported.

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Egypt Not Reassured
By Romanian Statement

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WASHINGTON (JTA)—The
Egyptian authorities consider
the statement issued last week
by the Romanian government
on Jewish emigration as "not
reassuring," a broadcast from
Cairo monitored here, said.
The Egyptian broadcast called
on the Romanian Government
to make a "clear" statement.
"What is said by Bucharest,
that it does not allow emigra-
tion to Israel except for a num-
ber of individuals, contradicts
what is said by Mrs. Golda
Meir and what is declared by
David Ben-Gurion," the broad-
cast stated. "It also contradicts
the measures adopted by the
Israelis."
"Israel is sending a minis-
terial mission to the United
States to collect donations and
assistance in order to enable
it to receive the incoming

Jews," the broadcast contin-
ued. "Israel is forming various
committees to study different
affairs relating to immigration.
This is taking place and it is
impossible for Bucharest to
answer it with merely an un-
official statement or an unclear
statement. We want something
clear and frank from the
states which we have always
considered as friendly. We
want a statement not covered
by vagueness."
Contrary to the Egyptian
broadcast, Radio Moscow in
broadcasts beaming news to
the Near East this week-end
repeated many times the Ro-
manian statement denying that
there is large-scale emigration
of Jews from Romania. The
statement was carried near
the beginning of Radio Mos-
cow's news programs and again
at the end.

tion, and have no foundation
whatever."
The Tass release also
stressed again a previous an-
nouncement to the effect that
Russia does not intend to per-
mit Russian Jews to attend
the meeting of the World Jew-
ish Congress, scheduled to be
held next Fall in Stockholm.
Like earlier denials, this one,
too, called the World Jewish
Congress a "Zionist" organiza-
tion, and termed as a "fabrica-
tion" the report that Russian
Jews would go to • Stockholm
for the WJC sessions.
Today's reiteration by Tass
seemed to coincide with the
meeting at Cairo of the Arab
League Council, which has been
convened in emergency session
to evaluate the new immigra-
tion to Israel, it was c orn-
mented here.

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The- swastika was received
in an envelope together with
an anonymous letter bearing
the words "my contribution to
the Anne Frank Youth Hostel."
A spokesman for the "Youth
Ring" is said to have com-
mented that "the current wave
of anti-Semitism has not spared
us."

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COLOGNE (JTA) — Israel
will receive a total of 250,-
000,000 deutschemarks ($62.5
million) in German reparations
during the next fiscal year, ac-
cording to the ninth annual
protocol negotiated under the
Reparations Agreement between
Israel and West Germany. An-
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MUNICH (WJA) — A card-
board swastika was received by
mail by the Bavarian "Youth
Ring," umbrella organization
of all youth groups, which
had appealed for money to
build a youth hostel in Israel
to be named after Anne Frank,
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Moscow Affirms Stand
Against Jewish Migration

LONDON (JTA)—For the
third 'time in two weeks, an of-
ficial organ of the controlled
Soviet propaganda apparatus
denied that the USSR plans to
allow emigration of Russian
Jews to Israel. Monday's denial
was issued by Tass, the Krem-
lin's official news service. Two
weeks ago, Moscow Radio broad-
cast the same announcement.
Two days later, it appeared
in the Soviet government's of-
ficial newspaper, Izvestia.
Like the previous announce-
ments, obviously designed to
curry favor with the Arab
states that have been complain-
ing against the influx of East
European Jews into Israel, to-
day's Tass dispatch declared:
"Sensational reports alleging
that the Soviet Union intends
to put into effect the mass emi-
gration of Jews to Israel are a
malicious, provocative fabrica-

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