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Pioneers Bring
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Haclastah Task

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sea level—the deepest depres-
sion on the face of the earth—
where there is•rain on only five
or 'six days a year.
During the current rainy sea-
son, incidentally, it has rained
only once, a few drops one after-
noon. It was considerably warm-
er in February than on a fine
August day in England.
I cannot imagine what it is
like on a fine August day at
Bet Haaravah! The people must
be either supermen or heroes
to stand such a climate, but
when you look at them, they
ddn't look very different from
you or me, or from working
men and women anywhere in
the world.
W 1 0 then, are these people?
e all members of the
The
Federation of. Jewish
Gen
Labor, the Histadrut, the pow-
erful trade union which includes
almost all the Jewish workers
of Palestine, certainly the most
influential labor organization in
the whole Middle East. ' Its
leaders, some of whom have be-
come well known at interna-
tional labor and trade union con-
ferences, represent industrial
and agricultural workers. Many
of them are drawn from collec-
tive settlements.
The settlers of Bet Haaravah
are mostly native Palestinians,
barn and bred in the country,
and deVOting their lives to the
ideal of_ bringing new life to a
country which for centuries has
been half derelict. But in many
other settlements throughout
Palestine we find young men and
women who have escaped from
a life of frustration in Europe
and have quickly adapted them-
selves to a new and more pro-
dttctive existence as agricultural
workers Inspired by the socialist
ideal.

BASICALLY' CAPITALIST
IT WOULDi BE AN exaggera-
tion to call Palestine a socialist
country; its econ•OMIC framewrotR
is capitalistic, as it is bound to
be in a capitalistic world. But in
the Jewish agricultural settle-
ments socialism is practiced as
nowhere else in the world.
Its principles are put to a
practical test—arid they have not
been found wanting. No wonder
that these collectIvet exetcise an
influence on the community out
of, all proporlibti td the num-
bers of their members. And no
wonder that they are the first
thing which any visitor to Pal-
estine wants to see.
Forty years ago these settle-
ments started as an experiment,
based on sheer economic neces-
sity. In the course of these years
they have proved their worth,
and they are here to stay as a
permanent feature of the eco-
nomic organu: tion of Palestine.
net Haaravahwas not even a
dream 10 years ago. Today it

Season's Greetings and
Best Wishes

Greek Jews Given
Lift by JDC Loans

Artisans, Merchants
Reestablish Trade

The Hadassah has established
a nerebtr of health centers
throughout Palestine Which are
doing yeoman •votk in health
improvement of people who
have suffered the ravagts of
years of oppression. Here, a
healthy child is examined in
the Hadassah health center in
Tiberias.

has a population of 200 adults
and 50 children.
In less than a decade it estab-
lished a sound pioneering enter-
prise, which has displaced no one
(because there was never anyone
here before), and which has
cultivated hundreds of acres of
land previously scheduled by the
Palestine government as "un-
cultivable". It has been a tri-
utnph of sheer hard work.

ATHENS, GREECE — Mor
than a thousand Greek Jews
have been given a new start in
life as small businessmen since
the liberation, thraugh Joint
Distribution Committee free
loans.
After years of sickness, pover-
ty and Nazi persecution, these
heads of families are now once
more independent, self-support-
ing Greek citizens; as a •eault of
help extended by the JDC, ma-
jor Atneritah agehoy aiding dis-
treased Jews ot'erseas with
funds from the United Jewish
Appeal.
Thus fai, mere than 775,000,-
000 drachmas have been ad-
vanced to help establish Jewish
survivors as bakers, barbers,
butchers, carpenters, welders,
radio repairmen, musician s,
small manufacturers and shop-
keepers. They are also receiv-
ing hard-to-get tools and sup-
plies through the JDC recon-
struction program, which is as
sisting them in reentering the

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economic life of the country.
Under the Man program, the
Greek Jetvlsh businessman ap-
plies to one of two local corn-
mitten fuhctioning under JDC
supervision in Athena and Sa-
lonika. He receives up' to 1,-
500,000—apPtoximatelY 000, at
the present official rate of ex-
change — with no interest
charged.
RePaymenti begin four
months after the loan is made
and are spread ovet a fifteen-
month period. The success of
the program can be measured
by the recotd set since its incep-
tion—no beneficiary has thus far
failed to meet his payment on
time.

Bessarabian. Jews
Tell Their. Thaftks

NEW YORK—Aelthowledgmeht
of the receipt of the first traha-
pert of medical and hospital sup=
plies was received by cable from
Dt. Simon Efrus, Jewish director
of the Foutth Clinical Hospital
in Kishinev, Bessarabia. The
cable also thanked the Bessara-
bian Jews of America for their
gifts, it was announced by Louis
Levine, National President of the
American Jewish Council to Aid
Russian Rehabilitation, and Sol
Serwitz, president of the Bessa-
rabian Federal on of American
Jews.
The Bessarabian Federat i o n
bought $25,000 worth of medical
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL supplies and machines for the
hospital in Kishinev and sent the
•
first shipMeht aboard the steam-
shit, Vladivostok which included
an x-ray unit valued at $11,000.
JO-JO BEAUTY
This hospital eqUipment is part
of a $250,000 projett which the
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last •natianal convention of the
Besaatabran Federation agreed to
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