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This report gives an overview of January 1949 on political activity in Oran. He is also interested in the “Israelite question” and the “Palestinian question”.

Events in Palestine are the order of the day. The successes achieved by the Israelis over the Egyptians caused immense joy in the Jewish communities. The Israelites avoid externalizing this joy in the department and are reserved in their comments on the war in Palestine. Nationalist parties are embarrassed following the military defeats of the Egyptian armies and the break-up of the Arab League.

The Zionist recruiting office in Oran has temporarily stopped its engagements. The mixed commune of Aflou reports significant departures of Israelites for Palestine.

In the appendix, there is a circular from Fédia Cassin of the Israelite Consistory of Marseille addressed to the Israelite Consistory of Algiers, expressing the concerns of the Jewish leaders about the situation of illegal immigrants from North Africa, who arrived in Marseille and in transit for Palestine. . The Palestinian Office cannot take care of them and they become “beggars”. Their condition is tragic, they can neither leave for Palestine because they do not meet the required conditions and there are no ships, nor return to North Africa for lack of means and boats. The Israelite Consistory of Marseilles, therefore, asks to stop by all means this irregular exodus which generates great misery.