Prime Minister of Israel Levi Eshkol is interviewed on whether he is facing difficulties integrating Jewish immigrants from poorer eastern countries and whether Jewish communities are less liable to persecution now than they have been at any previous t...

Levi Eshkol interview; Part 2 of 2 ENGLAND: London: Claridge's Hotel: INT Levi Eshkol (Prime Minister of Israel) interview SOT Q: HOW MUCH DIFFICULTY ARE YOU HAVING INTEGRATING THE JEWISH IMMIGRANTS FROM THE POORER EASTERN COUNTRIES WITH THE IMMIGRANTS FROM THE WEST - It is - I wouldn't call it difficulties / it is our duty, our task, and every one understands it, and wants to do it and does it eagerly / but of course there are differences, and it was in education, the possibilities that the countries of their origin allowed, gave them the possibility to acquire, and this is one of our tasks for the next ten or twenty years, a generation or more / to work hard for this real integration we are concerned between absorption when you take the people coming from the boats and then comes the integration / this is a task for a generation or more / it starts with the kindergarten Q: FINALLY, PRIME MINISTER, MAY I ASK YOU THIS - DO YOU THINK THAT JEWS ARE LESS LIABLE TO PERSECUTION NOW THAN THEY HAVE BEEN AT ANY PREVIOUS TIME DURING THEIR HISTORY - Definitely, I hope so / and I would say that the mere existence of the state, of this young state is adding very much to the stand of Jews in the world / and after all, every Jew has possibility today and we Israeli's we hope that we'll have much more of Jews coming to Israel / and to tell you the truth, I myself am not relying only on the Jews coming out of fear for persecution / we believe that Israel will be built this way will develop, will attract people because Israel is a nice country to live / from a cultural point of view, and from the values that we'll create, I believe very much that we'll succeed / it may take ten years - we may need thirty years / we'll succeed to close the ties between the broken strings of our past / so this is where I build my belief that there will be a continuation of immigration besides the countries of distress where by the way we took out almost all the Jews from backward Arab Co...