In the bottom it says “We need to question weather the immigration to Israel Strengthens us or weakens?”. By this Peretz wanted to have a serious discussion about Israel’s economic capabilities to handle with a large scale immigration.

Peretz Bernstein was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. He was elected to the first Knesset in 1949 as a member of the General Zionists, but lost his place in the cabinet. Re-elected in 1951, he returned to the cabinet as Minister of Trade and Industry in the fourth and fifth governments.