Absorption of the Mass Immigration to Israel 1948-1954

History of Hapoel Hamizrachi. Its position in Yishuv until establishment of State of Israel. Attitudes towards Haoved Hadati. Establishment and purposes of religious coalition. Trend system in education. Labor trend. State education and state religious education. Mass immigration and attitude towards newcomers from oriental countries. Policy of integrating eastern and western immigrants and its lessons. Struggle over education of newcomers: position of religious parties. Socialization of newcomers by education. Attitude towards Yemenite newcomers and Libyan newcomers. Crisis in education in immigrant camps. Series of articles by Yehuda Dominitz in "Hazofeh" newspaper. Born in Czechoslovakia, 1926. Immigration to Israel via Youth Aliyah, 1939. Studies in yeshivot. Educator at Aliyah, Youth Aliyah facility in Petah Tikva. Youth Aliyah emissary to Italy, 1946-1949. Committee investigating religious coercion in Youth Aliyah camps in Italy. Bringing children who survived Holocaust to Israel. Youths from Hungary Poland, Yugoslavia and Libya in institute for religious youth in Florence. Camp for Tripolitan youth in Salerno, 1949. Assistant secretary in Immigration Department of Jewish Agency (JA). Disagreement over limitations on immigration between JA departments of immigration and Absorption. Attitudes of various political parties and of David Ben Gurion towards immigration. Series of articles published by interviewee in "Hazofeh" concerning crisis in education, 1948. Public ; debate on education; differences between Hapoel Hamizrachi and Mizrachi. Work in Information Department of Mizrachi. Absorption of Libyan children into non-religious institutions.