Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 279

(b) Categories A (ii) and A (v) are to all intents and purposes nonexistent (immigration in these categories totalled 30 in 1933 and 36 in 1934). (,c) The inclusion in the Labour Schedules of sons and daughters of families approved under Category A(i) is not justified by the actual circumstances of Jewish family life. (d) The inclusion in the Labour Schedule of tourists who haveremained over in the country from former years artificially, reduces the Schedule, which is drawn up in accordance with prospects of work in the future. There is, on the other hand, a notable improvement with regard to certificates for Rabbis and students coming to educational institutions. About 1,500 certificates were given to the University in Jerusalem, the Haifa Technical Institute and other institutions, and about 700 were given to the Jewish Agency for Jewish youths from Germany. 2. One of the most important changes for us is that the certificates for Category C (workers) are now handed to the Jewish Agency, which distributes them to the Palestine Offices Or transfers them from one country to another without having to approach the Government on each occasion. When the amendment was published there was a certain amount of misunderstanding in the Press and among the public. Actually it increases the authority of the Jewish Agency as far as the Labour Schedule is concerned and puts the distribution of certificates into its hands. 3. Among the improvements introduced by the Immigration Department of the Government when it reorganised its work may be mentioned the new arrangement, by which the inspection of the papers of passengers travelling to Haifa on boats which had already called at Jaffa is carried out during the journey from Jaffa to Haifa. This enables passengers to land at Haifa without delay. Representatives from the Agency's immigration offices, who are present during the inspection on each boat, continue on board to Haifa and are thus able to offer any assistance needed during the inspection. The Immigration Department of the Agency is still negotiating with the Government for the removal of certain difficulties which face immigrants on arrival : limitation of the number of immigrants landing at Jaffa to 300 a day; the fee payable to the Health and Quarantine Offices; the necessity for immigrants to return within a week for examination by the District Medical Officer, though they may already have found work in the colonies, when the examination could well be done by a local doctor without their having to leave their work. Negotiations have not yet been concluded. 4. One of our gravest problems was the rounding up by the Government of Jewish tourists who had remained in the country without permission. The question became particularly acute when 279