Handwritten notebook, with detailed protocols of the Immigrant Housing Committee established to arrange the immigrants of the various countries in permanent residences. Israel, June - November, 1949.
The committee was established by members of various parties: the Neighborhood Division, the Etzion Immigrant House, and the Social Department. As detailed in the summary of the committee's first meeting, its functions were: "to manage all the affairs of the neighborhood, to schedule the distribution of apartments, and to decide from time to time on exceptional cases, or social cases in need of apartments or special apartment conditions ...". before us a very important historical source that allows a broad glimpse into the decision-making process in which apartments were distributed to the first immigrants who arrived in Israel in the first year of the establishment of the state. For example, the interesting datum is that 72% of the immigrants refused to accept the apartments offered to them due to their disgraceful conditions, and that there was a preference in dividing the apartments into families with large families of six or more, as well as a description of disputes between immigrants and neighbors. Disputes over cooking on Shabbat, and the use of prohibited utensils. On one of the pages of the protocol there is a detail about "What do you get the right to get an apartment", among the criteria that appear: a large and heavy family whose camp life is difficult, the date of immigration, and a section from which we can learn about The Zionist motives in the distribution of apartments: "Even for an immigrant who is already settled in a permanent job ... he deserves a housing even though according to the date of his immigration his turn has not yet come ... because by giving him the housing we make it great to be a citizen and a permanent resident who is very desirable to the community, and from it others will learn to do the same". And other interesting details in the fateful process of the absorption of immigrants in the permanent residences, which influenced the character of the various areas to this day.
See also Dynasty, auction 11 Item No. 18.
[43] Written pages. Unbound notebook. Very good condition.
