Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 273

To these immigration figures there have to be added another 12,000 Jews who entered to tour the country and study the possibility of settling. Some of these applied to Government for permission to remain permanently on the ground either of the capital at their disposal or of employment found. Most of these fall outside the category of persons to whom labour certificates are granted—i.e., they are artisans above the age of thirty-five, young women with no specialised training of any sort, etc. Very striking changes were shown in 1934 in the social structure of the immigration. Workers (arriving on certificates of the Jewish Agency) form the greater proportion during the whole period under review, but their share decreases from 62.5 per cent. (18,953) in 1933 to 52.1 per cent. (22,035) in 1934. This is mainly due to the large number of certificates for relatives granted by Government in connection with applications which had been accumulating for a very long time. Thus the number of relatives arriving in this country (Category D in the Immigration Ordinance) more than doubled in 1934—6,879 (16.2 per cent) as compared with 2,846 (9.4 per cent.) in 1933. Immigrants with means, too, increased, numbering 11,022 (26 per cent) in 1934, as compared with 7,060 (23.6 per cent.) in 1933. A new feature is the immigration of students from Germany, Poland, etc. Their number rose from 391 in 1933 to 1,893 in 1934.* * It is too early to make estimates as to immigration in 1935 on the basis merely of the first four months, but it is unlikely that there will be any important change in the social structure of this year's immigration. 273 18