Page Sixteen
Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Land and
Culture
National Soil is the Foundation
on Which the Principal Institu-
tiol s of Jewish Palestine Have
Been Erected
By NORMAN BENTWICH
Former Attorney General
of Palestine
Vaad Hatzala Sends Representatives to Visit War•Torn
Jews in France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland
T
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HE French authorities have eic-
tended a special invitation to
Mr. Charles Ullman, one of the
directors of the Vaad Hatzala, to
visit France and French occupied
territory for the purpose of bring-
ing relief to the liberated Jews in
that area. It is expected that Bel-
glum. and Holland will extend him
the same courtesy.
At a farewell reception tendered
to Mr. Ullman by the Vaad Hatzala,
at the Biltmore Hotel, Sunday, July
1st, which was attended by many
prominent Rabbis, merchants and
newspapermen, Mr. Ullman was
specifically instructed not to permit
any obstacles to break the free
channeling of relief, rescue and
rehabilitation..
The Vaad Hatzala the organi-
zation which helped 'rescue thou-
sands of mnfortunate Jews from
concentration camps and brought
them to safety in neutral countries.
CHARLES ULLMAN
iThp Vaad Hatzala is now engaged
in the gigantic task of helping these people with food, clothing and
medicaments. The Vaad Hatzala is also in the process of establishing
Zionism expresses above all
the spiritual and intellectual
connection of the Jewish people
everywhere with Palestine. Eretz
Israel is already the spiritual
center of the children of Israel.
It is not "a city laid up in
heaven," but attached to the
earth, as is necessary if the cen-
ter is to be a living influence.
One of the large functions of
the Jewish National Fund is to
provide that basis on the land
for the cultural institutiins of
the renaissance in all their as-
pects. It has provided noble
sites for many of them and
through its plantation activity ! orphan homes for the thousands of little children who have been left
the sense of physical beauty is homeless throughout Europe.
developed in the cultural life.
For the forests and gardens
which are planted around the salem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, are engineering by the side of the
buildings make the desert places built. The oldest of them is, largest Kibbutz, Yagur, and the
indeed not at Jerusalem, but in institute for children "Ahava".
indeed blossom as the rose.
Tel Aviv. The Herzliah 'Gym- Both of them were designed par-
First among the sites and the nasium' was the very first build- ticularly for the Youth Aliyah,
institutions is the Hebrew Uni- ing in those waste sand-dunes, and both serve a most valuable
versity of Jerusalem, high above that in thirty-five years have function in fitting the youth
the city in a place that surely become the site of the largest from Europe for life on the land
has no paralell among the aca- town in Palestine. Among the and industrial production.
demies of the world for majecty public buildings of Jerusalem of
It is unnecessary to mention
and stored wealth of history. which the National Fund owns by name all the agricultural
The National Fund has acquired the site as the permanent pos- schools and training farms, some
on the hill of Scopus an area session of the people of Israel, for boys and some for girls,
that extends already to some 70 are the Headquarters of the
acres; and if the plans for the Jewish Agency, of the Keren which the Jewish National Fund
has enabled the Women's In-
expansion of the University af- Kayemeth itself, and the resi- ternational Zionist Organization,
ter the war are realized, will dence of the Ashkenazi Chief
the Youth Aliyah, the Hehalutz
cover three times that area. The Rabbi. Those buildings are
and other bodies, to plant in all
site commands, on one side, all worthy of their purpose, and
parts of the Yishub. But out-
Judaea and the Holy City, and symbolize in their solidness the standing among them are the
on the other side the Wilder- permanent revival of Judaism in Junior and Children's Village of
ness, the Dead Sea, the Jordan the land of Israel.
Ben Shemen, planted amidst one
Valley and the mystic moun-
perhaps of the first pieces of afforesta-
Outside Jerusalem,
tains of Moab. Of that view
the most striking cultural build- tion which the National Fund
Disraeli wrote a hundred years
undertook as a tribute to Herzl
ago: "It is more than the his- ing is the Haifa Technical Col-
lege, still known by its old Ger- —before the first world war; the
tory of the world—it is the his-
man name, "the Technicum". Girls' Agricultural Schoql at
tory of heaven and earth."
The -National Fund acquired Nalutlal, which 25 yearns ago was
On what was a bare hill twen- that site halfway up the Car- a portent of modernity in a land
ty years ago, when the Univer- mel, in what is now the teeming where women had not yet taken
sity was opened, there are now suburb of Hadar Hacarmel, some their part in scientific agricul-
shady and fragrant academic years before the first world war. ture; ' another Girls' Training
groves, a woodland and the Bo- Happily, they gave it a spacious Farm, built more recently, near
tanical Garden which the Uni- area; for around the original Rehoveth and bearing the name
versity staff lovingly tend. And college a secondary school, a of "Ayanoth"—Springs; and the
the plans for expansion include maritime school, and a crafts Boys' Agricultural Training .Set-
a University quarter or city, school have been built. The cen- dement, which is conducted ac-
girdling the highest point on the tral building is the work of a cording to the teachings of tra-
ridge. There will be placed the fine Jewish architect from Ger- ditional Judaism, Kfar Hanoar
residential colleges for the stu- many, the late Mr. Alexander Hadati.
dents, the houses of the acade- Baerwald, and it forms the cen-
The Jewish National Fund,
mic staff and of the doctors and tral piece in the ever-spreading
staff of the Hadassah Hospital, Jewish residential quarter above too, it was who gave the site for
and some of the principal schools the port city. Near Haifa are two principal institutes of re-
of Jerusalem. There, too, it Is other notable cultural institu- search at Rehovoth, the Agricul-
designed, will be a Sports Cen- tions: the school for crafts and tural Experimental Station of
ter and a stadium for all the
youth of Palestine.
Much older than the Univer-
sity of Jerusalem is the Bezalel
School for Arts and Crafts with
the National Museum at Jerusa-
IT IS A HAPPY PRIVILEGE FOR ME
lem. Significantly they were
amongst the earliest cultural in-
TO EXTEND HEARTY FELICITATIONS
stitutions built ten years before
ON THIS MOST IMPORTANT OCCA-
the first world war; and the
SION TO MY FELLOW CITIZENS OF
land for their purpose was ac-
quired by the Keren Kayemeth.
THE JEWISH FAITH OF DETROIT
So was the land on which the
Teachers' Seminaries, three of
them in Jerusalem, and the He-
brew secondary schools in Jeru-
,
the Jewish Agency and the Dan-
iel Sieff Institute. Both of them
owe their inspiration to Dr.
Weizmann, whose house rises
above them; both in their beau-
tiful setting are fitting to their
purpose and are a pride to our
people.
Among cultural institutions we
may count the hospitals and the
rest homes which are a part of
the enterprise of collective help
and .social security in the Yishub.
Besides the Rothschild-Hadassah-
University Hospital in Jerusalem,
which is included in the Univer-
sity area, the J.N.F. has given
the site for the Municipal Hos-
pital in Tel Aviv, for the Hos-
pital of Tiberias, for clinics of
the Kupat Holim in the princi-
pal towns, and the central hos-
pital of the Emek at Affule; and
has given, too, the sites of the
convalescent homes at Motza-
close to the spot where Herzl
planted his tree on his only visit
to Palestine, and on one of the
loveliest ridges of the Carmel in
the quarter named after Lord
Samuel.
Turning to the religious as-
pects of the spiritual revival,
the National Fund plays a not
less important role. On its land
nearly 80 synagogues have been
built, in rural as well as urban
centers, and six Yeshivoth, and
the headquarters of the Mizra-
chi. And, lastly, we may men-
tion the large hall in Tel Aviv
known as Ohel Shem, where
among other public assemblies,
every Sabbath a large public
gathers for the Oneg Shabbath
which Bialik inaugurated and
which has become a religious in-
stitution of the people not only
in Tel Aviv.
The Jewish National Fund is
a national trust on a great, scale.
It fosters in its dedication of
land to national purposes ever
aspect of Jewish life. It is a
happy augury that this year it
has made a fresh departure in
acquiring from a private donor,
Mrs. Lilian Fried lay tiller I nee
Bentwich) a beautiful site at
Zichro Yacob, where groups of
musicians, artists and architects
will have their holiday home and
where, it may be, in the future
an artistic center will be estab•
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