ABSTRACT
The headlong flight of the Arabs from Palestine which was one of the early consequences of the outbreak of the Arab-Jewish War, and the unprecedented mass-influx immediately after the establishment of the State of Jewish survivors of the European concentration camps and refugees from the Islamic countries of Africa and Asia, generated a demographic revolution in Israel. The effects of this revolution are still apparent in every sphere and every walk of life in this country fourteen years after the foundation of the State, and will continue to be so at least during the lifetime of the present generation. The arrival of hundreds of thousands of newcomers, the majority of whom were completely destitute, called for the adoption of a number of immediate measures. New conditions gave birth to new types of settlement. The maabara (transitional work camp), the moshav olim (immigrants’ settlement), the kfar avoda (labour village) and the development township emerged.
