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PALESTINE BACK-TO-LAND MOVEMENT
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By DR. JACOB ETTINGER,
Head of the Agricultural Colonization Department of the Keren Hayesod
in Palestine.
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technical problems of ralefitinian agriculture
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ARTHUR E. SUTPHIN. President
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have all along been sources of the
dread malaria into c e nters of produc-
tion and civilized living. We have
done great work so far, but our work
is yet far from completed. We must
redouble our efforts in the future if
we expect Palestine to become the
real homeland of the Jewish people.
For Land and People.
As a result of the instinct implant-
There is much yet to be done in
ed in the heart of every people to in- many other directions. Through the
: sure its survival by means of creative aid of the Keren Ilayesod and another
labor on the soil, our msiple displayed
agency, many tracts were bought from
from the earliest days of the Palestine
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ing the annual retard of producing
over 1,000 liters of milk, where the
mean average of the Arab cattle is
about 600 liters. With the aid of the
Keren Ilayesod there is now being es-
tablished an experimental station for
the breeding of pure-blooded cattle, as
well as the raising of pure-stork poul-
try. The hay raised at Ben-Shem•n
is of the finest quality, and so are all
other (Milers. All these trios are no
doubt having their effect upon many
other settlements, aside from contribu-
ting to the comforts of Tel-Aviv. But,
in order to put this colony, as well as
others, on a permanent basis it is nec-
essary for the Keyes Ilayesod to ad-
vance the necessary funds for home-
building. At the present time, many
of the barns are built of turf, while
the homes of the farmers are put to-
gether of tin and similar flimsy ma-
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terials. A home for one's family is as
important as the possession of the soil
itself. Without it, there can be no
true attachment to the soil.
Conditions more or less similar ob-
tain in most of the settlements. In
one place it is the shortage of land, in
another it is the lack of proper hous-
ing for men and stock, and still an-
other, it is the lack of machinery and
tools: One settlement of 1,500 Dunams
near Merchaviah is entirely deserted
for lack of means. There is danger
that the multiplying mice will over-
run not only this colony but also do
harm to nearby Balfouria, beside the
menace of confiscation by the govern-
ment.
In brief ,it may be said that while
the Keren Hayesod has done much to
help the settlement of Palestine, in-
calculably more must be done in the
coming years in order to consolidate
the fruits of our efforts to (late as well
as to extend our work into wider
fields. Only thus can we hope to truly
make Palestine the Jewish homeland
Of the future.
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LADY SAMUEL REPLIES
TO HADASSAH GREETINGS
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The annual convention of Hades- rKIsS1■■■■•■■■■■
tali, held in Baltimore last June, sent
CHANUKAH GREETINGS
the following greetings to Lady Sam-
uel, wife of Sir Herbert Samuel, Lord
High Commissioner of Palestine:
At the annual convention of Ila-
dassah, held in Baltimore June 20 and
21, the delegates present unanimous-
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ly voted to send greetings to the first
lady of the land toward which all our
hopes, aspirations and efforts are di-
rected.
'The members of Hadassah, the
Women's Zionist Organization in the
United States, have a deep apprecia-
tion of your sympathy with the na-
tional cause, and your many activi-
CHALUZIM AT WORK PLANTING IN THE COLONY OF DILB, ONE ties and achievements in its behalf.
OF THE KEREN HAYESOD SETTLEMENTS IN PALESTINE.
They have a particular appreciation
of the interest you have manifested
movement an unquenchable interest time to time. According to the laws in its favorite undertaking, the
in agricultural pursuits. of the country, a piece of land is lia-
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As early as 70 years ago the longing ble to confiscation by the government graced the graduating exercises of
for the return to the soil manifested if it has been allowed to stay idle for the first and second classes with your
itself in Jewry, both within as well as a certain period of time We have presence, and encouraged our pioneer
without Palestine. In 1855 Sir Moses many such tracts in our settlements; graduates with cheering words in the
Montefiore bought a tract of land near tracts that have not been tilled for
language of our people.
Jaffa for the planting of a vineyard. some time, as with the funds furnished
"We venture to express the hope
The Jews of Sated and Tiberias at us we were abre to settle but a limited
that the relation thus established be-
about the same time went into the Air- number of Chalutzim and laborers on tween you and our work in Palestine
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oh and Druse villages—Sifroan, Pkua, the land. It is clearly the duty of the may continue for many years to
Germak and others—and tilled the soil Keren Ilayesod to find us the means
alongside of the non-Jews. It was for the proper and prompt settlement come." these greetings Lady Samuel
To
then also that certain dwellers of Jer- ofthese tracts; to settle thousands of
has replied:
usalem bought land in the colony now the Chalutzim upon the land as quick-
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"I have to thank you very sincerely
I named Motza. At a slightly later date ly as possible in order that neither for the most kind expressions con-
the agricultural school at Mikveh-Is- they nor the land shall be lost to us.
Or, to take another Instance. At tamed in your letter of July 16 which
was founded. It was also at about
reel seine
the
time that certain Jews of Ben-Shemen there is a fairly well es- has just reached me. I would ask you
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Jerusalem bought the soil upon which tablished dairy industry. Day by day to convey to Hadassah my real appre-
has since been established the mother the farmers bring numerous cans of elation of the greetings they send me;
on
of all colonies—the biggest of them milk into Tel-Aviv. In Ben-Shemen their confidence will be an encourage.
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ltr y. There are about 60 head of to do for the cause we all have so
cattle at the dairy, some of them hold- much at heart. "
Agriculture the Sole Aim.
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All the Palestinian organizations
that were subsequently founded in
Russia,
Roumania and America had
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but one, and only one, object in view:
rural, and not urban settlement. Such
I was the case with all groups; whether
composed of merchants, the students
and professional men of the "Bilu," or
' , the individual entrepreneur who may
I have been mainly prompted in his en-
Iterprise by his individual desire for
profits. Even Baron Rothschild, when
he became interested in the upbuilding
of Palestine, confined his energies to
the rural settlements, realizing no
doubt that the regeneration of the
Jewish people depended wholly upon
their return to the soil. The Baron
spared no means or effort when the
establishment of colonies was under
consideration, and founded a great
many new ones as well as rehabilita-
ted some older ones, realizing that on-
ly thus will the foundations for a fu-
ture national life be laid. The objects
of the Chovevei Zion, the Zionist sock-
ties and others are already known.
These were; the acquisition of the sod
and its settlement by farming commu-
nities.
Granted that the instinct of the peo-
ple and its leaders was a true one,
then the next thing to be considered
was the ways and means of finding ex-
pression for this, the most natural de-
sire of a people. These, as a matter
of course, involved sacrifice on the
part of both those who furnished the
sinews for this virtual war with many
great obstacles as well as those who
were to be settled upon the yet virgin
and practically barren owl and thus
to he called upon to hear the brunt of
the various hardships, at least for a
time. To accomplish this we had to
engage in many experiments; to blaze
many trails and to follow them as long
as we believed that they ultimately led
to the desired goal.
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But, if the aim set before us was
ever clear and well-defined—to create
as many rural Jewish settlements as
possible in Palestine—we were ham-
pered all along in the accomplishment
by the chronic lack of means. Pre-
vious to the establishment of the Ker-
enIlayesod we had to proceed slowly
and cautiously, though speed and en-
ergy were greatly needed if anything
worth while sons accomplished.
The Keren Hayesod, by means of
the aid extended to the National Fund
for the proper preparation of land for
settlement, as well as the support ex-
1 tended to the various colonies and
smaller
farm settlements to thrive and
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extend their usefulness; has made it
possible for hundreds of farm-labor-
ers and their families to settle on the
land and become independent, and
made it possible as well, for many
more of the newly arrived Chalutzim
to find profitable employment on the
soil.
At present 35 settlements with a
cultivated area of 39,715 dunams of
land are being supported in various
ways by the Keren Ilayesod. There
are 12 in Judaea, six in Samaria, nine
in the Valley of Jezrell, four in Lower
Galilee and four in Upper Galilee.
Aside from all this, it has contribu-
ted not a little to increase our esteem
in the eyes of our neighbors who saw
that by our energy and enterprise we
have changed waste and arid stretches
of land into blooming garden. We have
converted pestilential swamps, that
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