THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 11, 1969 11

Hias Notes 6,538 Jews Resettled in 1968 in Western Lands

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Ashdod Port

When the idea of building a second
deep-water harbor, after Haifa Port, on
the Mediterranean coast of Israel was
broached. Ashdod was chosen as a suit-
able place for the construction of the
modern port. Ashdod was selected as the
site for the deep-water port in order to
encourage the distribution of population
and to direct people to the south of Tel
Aviv, because half of the citrus area of
the state is planted south of Tel Aviv
because of the proximity to the quarries
of the Negev, a coastal area without
cliffs (rocks), and also because Ashdod
Was near the national road network.
Dr 1917, the preparation of plans for
the harbor was commenced. In 1960, a
loan was received from the Internation-
al Batik for Reconstruction and Devel-
opment for the construction of the port,
and the Construction Company for Work
Abroad and Harbors, founded by Solel
Boneh, began building the harbor in
partnership with outside bodies, after it
had been awarded the International
Tender.
It is possible for 12 ships to dock
at one time for unloading and loading
along the docks constructed in the new
harbor. On the southern side of the
port, a Jetty was built for bulk cargo
for the shipping of potash and phos-
phates. In the winter of 1967, the har-
bor thus succeeded in servicing 12
to 13 ships at one time. The invest-
ment at that stage reached 160,000.000
pounds. During the second stage of con-
struction, the main and side sea walls
will be extended. The coastal length of
the harbor will be 2.1 kilometers. The
land area of the harbor will be close to
1,400 dunams, of which about 450 do•
nams were reclaimed from the sea. At
that stage, the estimated investment
will be close to half a milliard (billion)
pounds.
The harbor began to operate officially
on the list of November. 1965, with the
arrival of the Swedish boat "%lugland."
During 1967-68, 876 ships called at the
port. The port employs about 1.000
regular workers. During the citrus sea-
son, the port employs an additional
880 temporary workers. All its equip-
ment is tip-to-date and modern, and
Is one of the newer, but of the
most modern and best equipped, ports ,
In the world. Alongside it, the new '
town of Ashdod, which has immigrants
from all parts of the world, is develop•,

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NEW YORK (JTA) — A total of
6.538 men, women and children
from Eastern Europe, the Middle
East. North Africa and Cuba were
resettled by United Hias Service in
western countries in 1968, "a year
of crisis and tragedy" for Jews,
Gaynor I. Jacobson, Hias executive
vice president, said in the migra-
tion agency's annual report. The
agency aided a total of 62,400 Jews
during 1968, according to Harold
Friedman, Hias president.
Mr. Jacobson reported that from
March. 1968 when Polish Premier
Gomulka said Jews who regarded
Israel as their homeland were free
to leave, until the end of 1968, 2,887
Polish Jews reached Vienna "and
more than half of them requested
Hias assistance in rejoining their
families and finding permanent
homes in the West." He also re-
ported that the Soviet block inva-
sion of Czechoslavakia last August
led to the flight between then and
the end of the year by some 4,000
Czech Jews to western countries.
He said more than 1,800 registered
with Hias in Vienna and other field
offices in western Europe.
He reported also that the situa-
tion of the 3,500 Jews in Iraq, 4,000
in Syria and an estimated 1,500
remaining in Egypt led to renewed
Hias efforts to obtain the right of
emigration for them. He reported
that Hias continued in 1968 its aid
to Cuban Jews, helping not only
those coming on the air-lift but also
those whose only means of escape
was through a transit country such
as Curacao, Spain or Mexico. He
declared that the agency was able
"to increase the results of our
USSR family reunion program last_
year, although the numbers remain
small and the difficulties great."
Mr. Friedman said the 62,400
persons aided in 1968 included some

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4,000 who received such post-
migration services as adjustment
of status, naturaliaztion, prevention
of deportation and jeopardy. He
reported also that Hias succeeded
in locating 1,050 persons in the
United States, the Soviet Union,
Israel, Australia and in more than
30 other European and North and
South American countries. Some
200 migrants who arrived in Latin
America before 1968 were given

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financial and other help, he said.
He said total Hias expenditures
in 1968 were $2,432,917. He declared
that in planning the 1969 budget,
the agency expected to help some
56,000 men, women and children,
including some 6,270 refugees and
migrants who will be helped to find
new homes in the United States,
Canada, Australia, Latin America
and western Europe, with total out-
lans for the 1969 program estimated
at $2,558,000.

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