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the total number of rooms required at 125,000
or 169,000 including slum clearance.
At a minimum, rooming accommodations in
Palestine for approximately 200,000 persons
will be needed during 1945 and 1946 without
any immigration.
The MESC report stated that in Haifa and
Tel Aviv "it is common to find 5 to 7 people
sleeping in one room". It has been reported
that during the past war years there have been
outbreaks of typhoid and bubonic plague due to
over-crowded conditions in urban centers.
These conditions, of course, have a
direct bearing on the question of immigration.
2. Economic Conditions in Palestine.
Approximately 90% of Palestinian industry
is Jewish owned. It has been greatly expanded
during the war to meet military demands. Its
growth has not been based on the ordinary
demands of the local or world markets, or of
prices and costs.
The reconversion of Palestine industry to
a peace-time basis presents a serious problem
with respect to products, costs, wages, markets
and employment. The continued employment of
the industrial workers engaged in war work,
and the employment of demobilized members of
the armed forces may give rise to unemployment
during the coming months of 1945 and through-
out 1946.
The task of reconversion would certainly
be rendered much more difficult if there were
any considerable increase in immigration dur-
ing the next few months.
3. Political Situation in Palestine.
The Arabs of Palestine, as well as those
of neighboring Arab States, are adamantly
opposed
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