6 Friday, August 26, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Aliya Increase Generates Housing Problem
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The difficulty in housing
some 7,000 new immigrants
who came here over the last
six months is one of the
problems brought on by the
recent surge in aliya.
According to Ilan Rubin,
deputy director general of
the Jewish Agency's aliya
department, aliya to Israel
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is up over all by 23 percent
so far this year compared to
last year. "The absorption
centers are practically full,
taking into account the re-
served places slated to be fil-
led during the very near fu-
ture by expected olim (new
immigrants)," Rubin said.
The housing problem is a
recent one. It is a combina-
tion of the dramatic turn
around in aliya during the
first half of this year —
aliya was up 50 percent
from the West but the drop
in the number of olim from
the Soviet Union and other
Eastern bloc countries has
tended to bring down the
significance in the overall
rise in the number of olim —
and the fact that approx-
imately 20 absorption cen-
ters were closed for the last
three years because there
was no need for such
facilities while relatively
few immigrants arrived
here.
other transition institu-
tions, Kotlowitz noted that
because of pressure on aliya
offices overseas, potential
immigrants sometimes
must wait up to two weeks
before they can be seen by
aliya officials.
According to Kotlowitz,
the breakdown in immigra-
tion from the West this year
will be: North America,
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some 13,000 immigrants
from the West are ex-
pected to arrive in Israel
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highest total since 1974.
But he warned that with-
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again decline.
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Presently, the average
stay in an absorption
center is one year. A
small percentage of olim
have even stayed as long
as two years. In addition
to the shortage of hous-
ing, some olim remain
because it is so inexpen-
sive to live in any of the
immigrant housing cen-
ters.
A family of four, in a
three-room apartment in an
absorption center pays close
to nothing, "a mere token,"
as Rubin put it. After that, if
no member of the family has
found work during the next
six months rent amounts to
$30 a month. If one family
member has found work,
rent increases to $100 a
month or 25 percent of the
incoming salary, depending
on which is lower.
Temporary hostels, which
are absorption centers
which do not include He-
brew courses for their oc-
cupants, are slightly more
expensive. Rent starts at
the beginning of the immig-
rant's stay. After three
months in a hostel, em-
ployed occupants are obli-
gated to pay 25 percent of
their salaries toward rent.
Permanent residences for
olim also exist. There are
3,500 places available and
they are filled to capacity,
and an extensive waiting
list accompanies this op-
tion.
4,200; Latin America,
3,800; France, 2,300; Un-
ited Kingdom, 1,500; and
another 1,700 from other
Western countries. Kot-
lowitz said he also expected
some 5,000 immigrants
from the East bloc and
Third World countries,
1,900 from Romania, 500
from the Soviet Union, and
1,500 from Africa.
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