Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 283

and as to the growth of the Yishuv, causes, as already mentioned,, a vast discrepancy between the desire to immigrate shown everywhere in the Galuth and the number of certificates at our disposal, limited, subdivided and subjected to provisos which it is difficult to satisfy; and it is thus impossible to meet the demands coming" from all parts of the Gallith, where thousands of prospective immigrants live only in the hope of coining to Palestine. The Immigration Department, in distributing certificates, consults the Immigration Committee set up by the Vaad Leumi, which represents all sections of the community in Palestine. Certificates are divided into three sections, for : (a) Halutzim—who are in the training camps of the Halutz organisations. (b) Relatives—applied for by residents of Palestine. (c) Skilled workers—in industry, agriculture and handicrafts. Congress has decided that 50 per cent, of the certificates at our disposal are to be given to halutzim who have passed through a training camp. Jewish industry in Palestine needs a large number of skilled workers, and it became necessary to take into consideration the demands of manufacturers and of farmers who asked for special workers for the settlements abandoned by their workers for more profitable occupations in the towns. At the same time there came insistent demands from those who have been waiting for years for their relatives living in countries where Jewish poverty has reached terrible proportions. The number of applications for relatives now accumulated in the Immigration Department of the Agency amounts to 17,000. It may be seen, therefore, that the problem of the distribution of the certificates is most complicated and results in protests from nearly every country and class both in Palestine and abroad, who cannot see more than their own immigration problem. 283