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origin. School system and University growing. Second hundred thousand on the way. World’s interest in prog ress continues unabated. Relations be tween Arabs satisfactory. Co-opera tion increasing with growth Jewish constructive enterprises. "Owing to economic 'collations of European Jewry continued increased remittances from America are impera tive’ in order to absorb the unemployed into productive labor by creating new settlements and maintaining immigra tion. Palestine looks to your contin ued maximum sacrifice.” Dr. Wise in his comments on the Weizmann message declared: "The an nouncement by the world Zionist leader that the modern Jewish exodus from the ghettoes of Eastern Europe back into the Promised Land has al ready brought the first hundred thou sand of them into Palestine, is a fact that stirs the imagination not only of tha Jews, to whom it spells the be ginning of Jewish redemption, but to all who are endowed with a historic insight and with the capacity to appre hend that an important stage has been passed in a movement which is bound to have a profound effect on the testi mony of mankind. Comparison be tween the modern return to Palestine and the ancient exodus from Egypt which resulted in the creation of Israel and the Bible has been frequently made, so frequently, in, fact, that the imagination is no longer, impressed by it. When, however, we learn that the modern movement is expressing itself in terms of hundreds of thousands re turning to Palestine, it is borne in upon us that we are standing face to face with developments of first histori cal importance. “ It is not amazing to point out that the completion of the first stage, the settlement of the first hundred thou sand, is the work largely of American Jewry, despite the fact that among those hundred thousand there is but a small percentage of American Jews. "The best guarantee that we are only at the beginning of the modern restoration of the Jewish people, and that the second hundred thousand will flow at an even faster rate than the first, is the fact that the generosity of the American Jewry for Palestine is constantly growing. The response to the United Palestine Appeal this year has been greater and prompter than ever before. T h i s response, which came not from the rich but from the large numbers of the comparatively poor, proceeds from a deepseated his toric consciousness of what the new phase in the history of Palestine means to the Jewish people. Our first appeal to the Jews of America in 1918 was for 8100,000. Our appeal this year is for 15,000,000 and we are approach ing the goal."
stine wealth, though, Jerusalem will always attract the „tourists and the pil grims. Though Jerusalem may be at the present time waning in importance, according to the sure word of prophecy she will be the glory of the whole earth when Jehovah shall reign in majesty-therein. EDUCATION Keeping apace with the material de velopments of Palestine is the intellec tual and educational phase of its pres ent day life, as is seen from the fol lowing article: RaBhid Bey, head of the Egyptian teachers delegation now visiting Pale stine, when interviewed by a corre spondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, declared that he was im pressed with everything he 1saw in Palestine, particularly with the He brew High School of Haifa and the children’s colony, the Jewish achieve ments in the country, particularly at Tel Aviv. He expressed the hope that mutual visits between Hebrew and Egyptian educators will take place an nually and that a periodical confer ence between the two countries will be arranged for the purpose of discuss ing the educational problems of Pale stine and Egypt. Prominent Jews and Arabs were present at a tea given by - the Government in honor of the visi tors. The group were the guests of the Zionist Executive in Jerusalem at a banquet given Saturday night, April 17. The speakers at the banquet were: Mr. Azaryan on behalf of the Hebrew Board of Education, Mr. Bhachyu for the Palestine Hebrew Teachers, Mr. Bowman, director of the government Educational Department; Col. Fred erick H. Kisch, Dr. Weizmann, Rashid ■Bey and the Egyptian Consul in Jeru salem. THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND IMMIGRANTS In the "New Palestine” of April 23 is a clear statement of the importance of the restoration of the Jews to Pale stine and its significance, by Dr. Weiz mann and Dr. Wise, which is as fol lows: Dr. Weizmann’s cabled message re views the situation in Palestine dince hj^fest visit a year ago and states: ^■P learty greetings and congratula- UPhs on excellent progress United Palestine Appeal. Immigration figures just compiled show one hundred thou sand new Jewish settlers entered Pale stine from 1919 to 1925, a fact of prime historic importance. Hundred Thousand released from Ghetto bond- afe to free national life. Settlers ab sorbed in growing industries and agri culture. Common Hebrew language established despite many tongues of
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT According to the "New Palestine” of April 23 industrial development in Palestine is rapidly progressing. Note the following extract: The Trade and Industry Department of the Palestine Zionist Executive, ac cording to its latest report, showed the following enterprises to have been helped with loans out of Keren Haye- sod Funds: a flour mill at Afuleh, a paperbox factory, a small textile fac tory, a carpet factory, a small soap w,orks and tannery at Tel Aviv, a fruit conserving plant at Motzah, a brick factory at Haifa, a biscuit factory and a printing press at Jerusalem. FISHERIES Along the shores of the Sea of Gali lee and the water front of Palestine, fisheries, which remind us of Peter and John and other of the Apostles who were fishermen, are beginning to become very important factors in these regions, as is seen in the following article.from the “ New Palestine:" Six Groups of Palestinian Jewish fishermen are plying their trade in dif ferent points along the $oast and on the Kinnereth Lake. The groups with their families number 110. Two are at Acre, three on the banks of the K in n e re th , and one at Athlet. Salonica fishermen are at Acre, where there is also a group of Jews from» Russia, while fishermen from Lithu ania and Poland pursue their trade on Kinnereth. The Trade and Industry Department of the Palestine Zionist Executive has always encouraged the organization and work of these groups, and out of funds of the Keren Hayesod a loan of $15 has been granted to each fisherman family. ECONOMIC RIVALS OF JERUSALEM According to present reports, Jerusa lem as the Administrative center /Of Palestinian Government is b e i n g eclipsed by the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, which have become the leading cities of Palestine on account of their strategic position, economically con sidered. Jerusalem, it is feared, is losing its importance as an Administrative cen ter. There is a tendency on the part of the Government to regard Haifa as a center for the Northern District and Jaffa as one for the Southern District, with Jerusalem assuming second place as a subdiatrict. In this yray we see the influence of the economic develop ment which is bound up with the two ports rather than with Jerusalem. The i latter will never lose its political sig nificance as the capital, but built on the height, it is cut off from the active stream of life that flows in the plains. The hinterlands of Tel Aviv and Haifa will become the main source of Pale
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