Intensive efforts are being made to restore local services in these areas. local civil servants are paid by the Israeli Government. travel permits are readily granted. schools have been reopened. Arab farmers have been assisted. and public works are completed or started to provide jobs for the unemployed. In short. every effort is being made to restore the Arab communities. and to help relieve the destitute condition of the Arab refugees. The question of the occupation of Jerusalem was not totally clarified. but I got the strong impression that Jerusalem would remain in Israeli hands and would become an open cityunder Israel control but open to visitors of any religion or nationality. The administration of the Muslim mosques may very well be under Jordanian control.
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