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This report gives an overview of January 1942. It also contains information on elected Muslim officials, reformist ulama, religious brotherhoods, indigenous Israelites, the press, economic issues, propaganda …

The indigenous Jewish population faces the problem of educating Jewish children who are expelled from schools. In Constantine, two thousand Jewish children are deprived of education and the Consistory is looking for a million to be able to send them to school. The city of Constantine has nearly 15,000 Jews or half the Jewish population of the department. Wealthy Jewish circles fear new measures and it is for this reason that they don’t subscribe to the Consistory. It failed to raise the necessary funds to educate young Jews. The “Bergson school” hasn’t yet been able to open and its premises are being fitted out. Mr. Marcel Toubiana, former associate professor of letters, has been appointed director of this establishment.

The heads of the delegation in favor of National Secours Mr. Gozland and Mr. Tenoudji were arrested to appear before the court-martial in Lyon.

Doctor Bendjelloul assures various senior representatives of the Administration that there is a good understanding between Israelites and indigenous Muslims.

The Prefecture put the question to the general government to know if the application of the statute of the Jews in Algeria, should not bring the revision of the authorizations of “places of drink”, held by the Israelites.

An article published in the “Républicain” of January 3 under the signature “Un Musulman” (Benslimane) and entitled “Where does Jewish money come from? Jewry and the black market”, accuses the Jews of lacking nothing and to indulge in the black market. The article lists the goods, quantities, and prices. The report adds, “The author of this anti-Jewish article would have been fairer in acknowledging that the Jews are not the only ones to engage in this trafficking. In fact, only the well-off Jews do it and like the Jews. well-off Muslims or Europeans. “