Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 21

— 21 — ment. The Council for German Jewry contributed the sum of LP.2,000 for social work in the period from October, 1936, to March, 1937. During 1936, the Central Bureau spent LP.348 for the Immigrants' Hostel on Mount Carmel, which provided 15,232 night-accommodations from May 1st, 1936, to April 1st, 1937. The Immigrants' Home in Jerusalem was also supported. The Central Bureau also supported a kindergarten for children of German immigrants in Tel Aviv. The interviewing of immigrants and the furnishing of advice after their arrival on matters of housing, vocations and money transfers were handled by the German Immigrants' Association, which was strengthened and extended during the last year and received a grant of LP. 150.- a month from the Central Bureau. The German Immigrants' Association is composed of German immigrants federated for mutual aid. It has 22 branches in the country and about 5,000 members paying a monthly fee. The following are the activities of the Association : (a) Interviewing Immigrants, giving advice on their initial settling arrangements (special function assumed by the Haifa branch, which meets newcomers on arrival at the harbour). (b) Assistance in obtaining employment. The three urban branches of the Association established, in contact with the Labour Exchanges of the Labour Federation, special Labour Bureaux the object of which was to deal with the more difficult individual cases. In the first five months of 1937, the three bureaux dealt with about 4,000 persons. In co-operation with the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews, the Association's bureaux deal particularly with % obtaining employment for immigrants, arranging for vocational changes and in securing vocational training for youths, conduct vocational courses and other specialized training and grant credits to persons learning a special trade. (c) Agricultural Training. The Agricultural Department of the Association, as representative of the Central Bureau for Settlement of German Jews, deals with individual cases of placing immigrants in agriculture, organises colonising groups and takes charge of training of such groups as well as of special training centres, as at Beer Tuvia. In order to arrange for the immigrants coming on grants by the Council for German Jewry, the Association undertook all preparations