With the presence of Natan Berman, in charge of welcoming new immigrants at the Municipality of Jerusalem, and Leticia Baran, employment advisor at The Jewish Agency for Israel, the Aliyah Promotion Department of the World Zionist Organization held the conference ‘Living, Working, and Studying in Israel’.

On April 19, 1943, one of the most heroic and tragic events in the history of the Holocaust began in the Warsaw Ghetto — the armed uprising of the Jewish population against the Nazi occupiers.

On December 20, the Israeli Knesset approved in the final reading a bill on state funding of higher education for demobilized soldiers of mandatory and extended service.