ABSTRACT
Western Jews who possessed a citizenship worth having preferred to be left the choice of a change of citizenship. The grant of citizenship was completed by the taking by the recipient of the oath of allegiance to the Government of Palestine or of the making of an equivalent affirmation. Among the new settlers in Palestine, and some of the older ones, there were many who, victims of the upheavals and changes of frontiers and status that followed the ended War, had the misfortune to have no country and no citizenship. The indigenous population in the north of Palestine suddenly found themselves cut off from their friends and relatives by an artificial frontier that had been drawn between them, often cutting families in half, sometimes separating their homes from their fields. The distribution of much of available employment for Jews in Palestine was in its hands and since there was insufficient employment for all, what there was had to be rationed.
