By establishing large industrial plants in the country. they have made Israel one of the most industrialized. modern and progressive communities in the whole Middle East. Also the development of a viable economy has been expedited by a fivefold increase in foreign exports in the last 8 years. In the next phase. that of receiving and assimilating refugee Jews. they were no less successful. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from far and near. from Europe. Asia and Africa were financed by the new state. In the exertion of such superhuman efforts the citizens of Israel have had the constant and unfailing support of world Jewry. and also of all other liberty loving people of the Free World. When one bears in mind that on the average the Israeli Government spent somewhat more than $12.000 to settle each immigrant family in Israel. and that during their first year there the government expenditure for each individual immigrant was more than $1.000. then it is clearly understood that outside aid was indispensable. Fortunately in this humanitarian task nonJews sympathetic to their cause helped the Israelis. Financial contributions from this country alone. during the decade. must have exceeded the billion dollar mark. excluding some $300 million raised here through the sale of Israeli Government bonds.
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