Israel - Holocaust Survivors Seek More Funds

Israel - A Jewish Agency and Holocaust survivor groups joined forces to demand more money from the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
"If money continues to be allocated the way it has been, it will still be sitting in the bank when the last of the Holocaust survivors is gone," they said. "Holocaust survivors are at the end of their lives," "in another 15 years only a very few survivors will remain. We should give them the money they deserve now, while they are still alive, and not wait until it is too late."

In a memorandum they specify that 60 percent of the funds be spent in Israel. "In light of the centrality of the State of Israel... 60% of the funds... will be allocated in Israel and the remainder will be distributed in the rest of the countries of the world."