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 tr5tt 5frt'Mtrnt 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• lish ed. B u y that Extra War Bond and hasten the ultimate Javan. —Photo by P:. 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