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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Thursday, September 7, 1950
National Fund Celebrates
50th Year,Looks to Future
i
f elvish lligration
(Continued from Preceding Page) from Yemen represent practically
Yemenites 1,600 airmiles to the an entire community. Jews have
Promised Land. Thus began . lived in Yemen for 2,000 years in
"Operation Magic Carpet"—JDC's considerable numbers. Now they
historic air movement of more are almost all gone.
than 45,000 Jewish men, women
Germany is a land with a hand-
By DR. HARRIS J. LEVINE
and children to Israel.
ful of Jews — where once there
President Jewish National Fund
At this moment, JDC is en- were 600,000. Hitler, of course,
S THE NATIONAL JEWISH FUND centers the 50th year of its existence, it is deeply gaged in what may be the great- drove out or killed off the vast
conscious of the tremendous volume of lo ve, devotion and sacrifice which has flowed est of all its airlifts, "Operation majority. But (luring the early
Ezra." Ina race against a dead- post war years, the remaining na-
toward it from millions of Jews throughout the world.
of March 1, 1951, the JDC is tive Jews and displaced Jews of
Save for this profound interest in the JNF, from the Blue-and-White Box, through line
trying to bring out of Iraq at least Germany numbered more than
the Flower Day collections. to the last will and testament in which the'Jewish National Fund •
180,000.
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— d -bOuesr,,the- tagk —of'redetming the - soil of Israel may - have still
Today, they barely number
is named - as 3 reci- O -ienl ova
Many difficulties beset the be-
remained completely unfulfilled.
ginning of that operation—neces- 30,000—and the chance remains
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I sitated by the fact that conditions that they will be still less in the
The Jewish National Fund was
past decade the Jews of the for Jews in Iraq—the suite of an- immediate future.
organized as the land purchasing
United States have provided up- I cient Babylon—have deteriorated
Yugoslavia had 11,000 Jews at
arm of the World Zionist Organi-
proximately 70 per cent of the badly.
the war's end—and HOW nearly
zation and of the Jewish people.
total world income.
At the same time JDC is spoil- 7,000 are gone.
Its purpose has been defined as
Some 18,000 Jews have gme
the acquisition of the land in
This year the JNF has carriedlsoring still another airlift out of
Palestine as the possession in per-
forward a number of projects for I Iran, bringing out Iraqi Jews who from Tripolitania and the day
the upbuilding of Israel, perhaps have fled to that country, and may come when practically the
petuity of the Jewish people, and
the amelioration of the soil with
the most noteworthy among them Kurdish Jews who have come entire Jewish population — some
a view to rendering it capable to
being the Kfar Truman.
! down out of the hills of Iran's 25,000—will be gone.
These migrations are the stuff
The establishment of the state wild northwestern frontier, seek-
sustain a large and ever increas-
of Israel multiplied the responsi- ing safety and haven in Israel.
from which history is made.
ing Jewish population.
Watering the Negev is one of
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How these changes will affect
bilities of the Jewish National
The JeWish National Fund has
the tasks of the Jewish Nation-
carried through the redemption of al Fund. A great reservoir is Fund. It now has to provide land I THUS, BY SHIP, by train, by the countries from which the
the soil by acquiring it from in- being built in the heart of the for the newcomers and the mil- plane, JDC has kept up the steady Jews have departed remains to be
who will the
follow
them.
dividual owners, mostly Arabs. Negev for irrigation of the lions
Moreover.
JNF
must take flow of emigration which this seen.
But one thing is certain—Israel
Without this land policy a sub- desert occupying 46 per cent
month accounted for the 500,000th
its share of the buieden of awe- person it has helped with such has received the most precious of
stantial Jewish immigration into
of Israel.
;,
liorating the soil through irriga- a'"
all its vitally required imports-
Palestine would have been hardly
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conceivable. The newcomer would session of the few, with land tion and afforestation, so as to
li is safe to say that when the men, women and above all chil-
have found the land in the pos- speculation rife. Settlement o9. make the land capable of absorb-! story of these hectic past five dren.
ing the immigration.
years is written, it will be the
the land would have been beyond
Of the 231 Jewish settlements,
emigration activity that will re-
the reach of most pioneers.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
constituting 40 per cent of the ceive the major attention—even
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TO ALL
IT TOOK THE Fund the better total number of Jewish settle though more lives were saved
part of half a century to redeem menu—that have been founded through JDC's relief work. For
the first million dunams; the sec- since May, 1948, which is the date , through its emigration work, JDC
ond million has been acquired of the proclamation of Israel's has helped change the course of
since the establishment of the statehood-220 have been found Jewish history.
ed on JNF land; 113 for new im-
Jewish State.
Bulgaria had 47,000 Jews at the
From 1910 to June 1950 the migrants. and 107 for pioneeringl war's end — ractically the only
All Types of
Alterations - Remodeling
Jewish National Fund hi!s mobil-
Of the new immigrants, who! Jewish community of its size on
ized for land redemption, amelio-
All Work Guaranteed
was
thecontli e n se s nt tha wnhi
ration and afforestation the sum left the reception centers, more Today,
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We Call for and Deliver
re-
inta rcet-.
7 c11 ,000 w Jews
than
30
per
cent
have
been
re-
of $140,151,853.
ceived in settlements on JNF main — the rest have departed
2167 EWALD CIRCLE
America has played a great role
UN. 3-6633
with JDC's aid.
TO. 8-0458
in this collection of funds. For the land.
The 45,000 Jews who are gone
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IN 1898, TFIEODOR IIERZL,
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founder of the Zionist movement,
GREETINGS
MEETINGS...
planted a tree in Jerusalem dur-
ing his visit in the Jewish home-
land. Since then the JNF h a s
planted forests containing six
Louis Margolis, Pres.
PLUMBING & HEATING CONTRACTORS
million trees.
TO.
8-8870
TR. 1 1500
JOS.
CAMPAU
2955 W. DAVISON
9205
But many more trees are need-
ed if the land, which has been
neglected for over 2,000 years, is
again to bloom like a rose.
ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS
The practical work of large-
TASHMOO
5-6280
scale
afforestation
in
Israel
falls
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MRS. JACOB KAUFMAN AND FAMILY
naturally within the scope of the
Best Brands of Poultry, Pigeon and Rabbit Feeds
of Kaufman's Home-Style Food Products
Jewish National Fund. It is now
Vigoro Plant Food and Super Peat Moss for Lawns—Remedies, Fountains,
embarking
upon
a
10-year
tree
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Hoppers and Feeders—Hay, Grain, Oats, Feed and Straw
8622 OAKLAND
planting program in the Galilee,
the Negev and the Jerusalem
"corridor."
GREETINGS
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Greetings . . .
RUBY
Cleaners-Tailors
Sol Rosemnan
Florist
MUSKOVITZ-PERSHIN & SONS
Margolis Furniture Company, Inc.
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F. W. LANGE & SONS
New Year's Greetings
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Electric Appliances — Repairing
Electric Heating Units — Lionel Trains
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SHOE CENTER
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