71 Carter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNkTI 20, 01llo — - - 11111111111111111.111..... Page 31 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. - — 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 • 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 • • * 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 ' 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 • • • 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, 19021 LIVERNOIS AVE. 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 • • . IN 1898, TFIEODOR IIERZL, 010041111110MON.0.11 ■ 10 4. ■ tHEI•m ■ omo. ■•••■ I ■•■ •• wow ••• ■■■■•■■■ • .1•11,6m1. ■■■■ ••••• ■ 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 6000 MICHIGAN AVE. 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 TR. 5-4379 Hoppers and Feeders—Hay, Grain, Oats, Feed and Straw 8622 OAKLAND planting program in the Galilee, the Negev and the Jerusalem "corridor." GREETINGS A Greetings . . . RUBY Cleaners-Tailors Sol Rosemnan Florist MUSKOVITZ-PERSHIN & SONS Margolis Furniture Company, Inc. - MM. F. W. LANGE & SONS New Year's Greetings Hiram Marks Electrical Co. Electric Appliances — Repairing Electric Heating Units — Lionel Trains WOODWARD 1.5553 CONGRESS at ST. 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