After immigrants arrive in Israel, each one is provided with a bedstead and a mattress. After dis-embarking they are first taken to Shaar Aliyah (The Gate), a transit camp, where they get their medical examination and registration, and from here they are sent to different cities, work camps, settlements or homes for the aged and the sick. In St Luke's camp, now called Shaar Aliyah, there is a constant motion of iron bedsteads and mattresses. When the immigrants for another camp, they take their bedding with them.