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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Jewish Service Agencies See Hike
in Aid to Families in 10 Years

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NEW YORK — An increase of
more than 30 per cent in the num-
ber of families receiving assist-
ance from the Jewish family agen-
cies in the United States and Can-
ada during the past decade was re-
ported in the 1970 Yearbook of
Jewish Social Service, compiled
and recently issued by the Coun-
cil of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds.
The annual is an analysis of
service and financial statistics of
Jewish family, child care, aged
health service agencies reporting
for the year ending Dec. 31, 1969.
The Yearbook reveals that despite
the over-all increase in families
receiving services from Jewish
agencies during the past 10 years,
a leveling off has been taking
place since the latter part of the
19605. In 1969, it was noted, more
than 74,000 families received as-
sistance from 61 Jewish agencies
reporting, representing an increase
of 2.5 per cent over the previous
year.
While the number of families
served has climbed dramatically
from 1960-1969, the number of

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COPENHAGEN (ZINS)—A to-
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sian translation of the works of
Norway's Knute Hamsun were
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the public descended en masse on
Moscow's Dom Konigi (House of
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Statistical Data About Occupied Areas

By H. SHACHTER
The Israel Central Office of Sta-
tistics has begun the publication of
a monthly Statistical Absract for
the Occupied Areas, giving data
about the population, health, trade
and industry, prices, man-power
a n d employment, agriculture,
building, communications and serv-
ices.
From the first issue of the new
monthly, one learns that the popu-
lation in the occupied areas at the
end of September 1970 amounted to
977,000, of whom 608,000 lived in
Judea and Samaria and 370,000 in
the Gaza Strip and Northern Sinai.
Imports to the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip in the first half of
1970 amounted to 144,000,000
pounds ($41,760,000) (including
126,000,000 pounds from Israel),
as compared with 142,000,000
pounds in the first half of 1969.
Ex ports from these areas
amounted to 81,000,000 pounds
($23,490,000), as compared with
64,000,000 pounds in the first half
of 1969, showing a rise of about
27 per cent.
Exports through the Jordan
bridges during the months Jan-
uary-September 1970 amounted to
about 46,000,000 pounds ($13,340,-
000), as compared with 40,000,000
pounds in the corresponding period
in 1969, showing a rise of 15 per
cent Exports to Israel during the
same period amounted to 25,000,-
000 pounds.
Imports through Jordan bridges
during the first nine months of
1970 amounted to 10,000,000 pounds
($2,900,000), as against 18,000,000
in the corresponding period in 1969,
registering a drop of 4 per cent
The cost of living Index (ex-

families receiving financial as-
sistance alone has remained al-
most constant. According to Al-
yin Chenkin, supervisor of the
council's statistics unit which
compiled the Yearbook from re-
ports of Jewish agencies in cities
throughout the United States and
Canada, 2,000 families received
$2,500,000 families in 1969, 1 per
cent more than received direct
financial assistance in 1960.
"Significantly. almost 40 per
cent of all families receiving finan-
cial assistance in 1969 were immi-
grants," Chenkin noted. "They
received approximately $1,000,000,
or almost 50 per cent of the aggre-
gate agency expenditures for the
year."
This figure, he added, was twice
the amount of expenditures for
assistance to immigrants 10 years
earlier, "reflecting but in part the
rise in costs due to inflation."
A prothinent grouping of fam-
ilies receiving assistance were in
the 60 years-and-over age group.
They represented almost a quarter
of the total. In 1969, more than
18,000 were served by 76 reporting
Jewish homes for the aged, an in-
crease of more than 20 per cent
since 1960.
At the other extreme of the age
bracket, the Yearbook records that
he number of children receiving
services from specialized Jewish
child care agencies changed little
during the 1960s.
Additionally, the Yearbook lists
a 10 per cent decrease in the num-
ber of children placed for adoption
between 1968 and 1969. Of these,
approximately 25 per cent were
non-Jewish. The number of unwed Olim to Get Mortgages
mothers serviced by Jewish agen-
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — New-
cies declined from 1968 to 1969.
comers to Israel may soon be able
to obtain mortgages without guar-
antors, thanks to the Investment
Big Response Seen
Guarantee Corp., Ltd., a company
to Emergency Fund
established on recommendation of
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Dr. Israel the Jerusalem Economic Confer-
Goldstein, said that there -were in- ence.
dications of an "extraordinary re- According to Gen. Chaim Herzog,
sponse" by world Jewry to the the corporation's head, one of the
$1,000,000 Israel Emergency Fund difficult problems facing any im-
campaign for 1971. judging from migrant home buyer is obtaining
the large increase in contributions a mortgage. Israel government
registered so far.
authorities approve mortgages up
Dr. Goldstein, chairman of Ker- to 50,000 pounds ($15,000) but the
en Hayesod, reporting at a meeting loans are actually made by com-
of its board of directors here said mercial banks which require a
Jewish communities abroad have minimum of three guarantors. Of-
already contributed or pledged ten the prospective home owner
amounts above their record 1967 is unable to supply such guaran-
contributions. At the same time, tors.
The Investment Guarantee Corp.,
he noted, most diaspora Jews would
have to double or triple their con- headed by Merzom, would be pre-
tributions in order to fulfill the pared to guarantee the mortgage
for a fee of 1 per cent, half of
quota set.
The Keren Hayesod has set a which would be borne by the
$200,000,000 quota for the emer- homeowner, and the other half
gency campaign. American Jewry by the bank making the loan.
is expected to contribute $400,000,.
000 through the United Jewish Ap-
The world gets better every day
peal and $400,000,000 through the —then worse again in the evening.
purchase of Israel Bonds.
—Kin Hubbard

elusive of fruits and vegetables)
in the Judea and Samaria dis-
tricts rose in September 1970 by
about 7 per cent over the cor-
responding month in 1969. The
main rise took place in the
months of July-September - 1970.
In the Gaza Strip and in North-
ern Sinai, on the other hand, the
cost .of Hying index (exclusive of
fruiti and vegetables) rose by
only 2 per cent during the months
July-September 1970.
In the first half of 1970, the po-
tential labor power in the Judea
and Samaria districts amounted
to 121,300, of whom 118,400 were
actually employed. In the Gaza
Strip and Northern Sinai, the
labor power stood at 62,300, of
whom 58,200 were employed.

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In September 1970, about 21,000
laborers from Judea and Samaria
and about 3,800 from the Gaza
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