Friday, October 25, 1946 _
THE JEWISH NEWS
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United Jewish Appeal Calls
Communal Leaders to Parley
Three-Day National Conference to Be Held in Atlantic
City; Representatives From Europe and Palestine
to Outline Needs of Survivors
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Proof that Palestine Can Support
Large Scale Jewish Immigration
Three
Ye/an
of Agriculture Experimentation Proves Beyond Doubt
That Negev Area—Long an Uninhabitable Wilderness—
NEW YORK: A call to Jewish communities throughout
the U. S. to send leaders and representatives to the three-day
Is Tenable; 'Operation Land' Hailed es Successful Maneuver
National.Conference of the United Jewish Appeal, which will
Nausea of New Settiensesta
be held in Atlantic City; N. J., from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, was
JERUSALEM, Oct. 8 (Palcor) Part Played by Youths
issued this week by Charles J. Rosenbloom, William Bosen- .
Established
ea INF Land
Land," the record- Traigusa in U. S. Hachsharah
wald and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national chairmen of the UJA. —"Operation
JERUSALEM — The 1 lth day
The invitation was issued a few,
days after the executive commit-
tee of the UJA voted unanim-
Council for
ously that the mounting problems
facing the Jewish survivors of
Dr.
Europe in rebuilding their shat-
tered lives had made imperative
NEW YORK, (JPS) — The
the convening of a representative' Greater New York Zionist Ac-
American Jewish assembly to tions Committee described as a
formulate a program of action • "canard . . . typical of the 'party
for 1947.
liners' whose names appear as
Underscoring the world-wide signatories . ." an 'open letter'
scope of the conference, the na- I by the Jewish Labor Council
tonal chairmen of the UJA dis- alleging that Dr. Abba Hillel Sil-
closed that distinguished Jewish ver, president of the Zionist Or-
leaders from Europe and Pales- ganization of America, was try-
tine would attend the sessions to
ing to maneuver Jewish votes to
describe current conditions in
the Republican Party.
Europe and Palestine.
When the open letter first ap-
In calling upon every Jewish!
as an "ad" in
community to send its represen- peared last week,
tatives to the conference, the' a Yiddish daily, the Independent
national chairmen stressed that Jewish Press Service pointed out
the historic meeting will reach that its signatories were members
decisions "that will greatly af- of Communist and Communist
fect the life of Jews here and Front groups.
'We know," the Zionist Actions
abroad. -
To strengthen the representa- Committee asserts, "that Dr. Sil-
tive character of the conference iver is not a member or partisan
and to assure equitable partici- of the Republican Party, as this
pation. the UJA has invited local group insinuates, or of any polit-
communities to send representa- ical party." "The fantastic state-
tives to Atlantic City in propor- l ment by the so-called Jewish La-
tion to the support made avail- i bor Council . . . is a mixture of
able to the UJA by these corn- 1deliberate distortion and pure
munities. I fabrication."
N. Y. Zionists Assail
Labor
Silver
Attack on
breaking establishment in a single
These settlements will be of
day of 12 new Jewish settlements strategic importance in the event
in the Negev, was the culmination of future plans for partition. Be-
of three years of agricultural ex- hind the story of political im-
perimentation there, which portance, however, is the story
proved beyond doubt that this of the American youths who par-
of the Hebrew month Tishri, Oct.
6, 1946, will remain a notable
date in the annals of the Jewish
people's struggle for keeping
open the gates of Eretz Israel to
Jewish immigration, free land
purchase and large-scale resettle-
large triangle of southern Pales- ticipated in these operations.
ment of the survivors of Euro-
tine, long represented as an un-
Each has undergone a period of pean Jewry on the soil of the
inhabitable wilderness, is capable training in agricultural and col-
Jewish Homeland. This is the day
of supporting large-scale Jewish
lective living at the training farm
completion of
settlement, a Jewish Agency (hachsharah) of the Hechalutz of the successful
"Operation Land" as a result of
spokesman disclosed.
Organization at Highstown, N. J.,
The experimental work began and various urban training cen- which the number of Jewish
colonies has been increased by
October, 1943, with the establish- ters.
thirteen new settlements.
ment of Gvulot. In July, 1944,
They were—men and women—
The new settlements arose be-
two more experimental settle-
for the most part, college gradu-
ments, Asluj and Bet Eshel, were ates and professional workers be- tween dawn and dusk of the
established. These places were fore they began their training as historic day and changed the map
of the Negev, the southern
chosen because they represent the
pioneers. During the war, the desert .part of Palestine. They are
three main types of soil found in
men served in the armed forces. located in the one where new
the Negev, the spokesman said.
Some were stationed in Italy and land acquisition is prohibited, ex-
At these experimental stations,
were active with the Palestine cepting one which is situated
which later became permanent
Brigade. Others in Aus- within the Restricted Zone, and
settlements, rainfall, dewfall and Jewish
and France did
tria,
Germany
underground water possibilities exceptional work among the rem- have as their foundation a land
tract of 85,000 dunams redeemed
were studied as well as the nature
and provided for this purpose by
of the soil and types of trees nants of Jewish people.
With the ending of the war, the Jewish National Fund.
grow able.
During the three experimental and the partial reopening of im-
The names and location of the
years tens of thousands of trees migration, the group began to new settlements, the establish-
of 25 varieties were planted. En- leave for Palestine, the first hav- ment of which constitutes a great
couraging results were achieved ing left America in October, 1945, epic in the upbuilding of Eretz
on the Gripsholm.
with food crops.
Kibbutz Aliyah Gimel, togeth- Israel are: 1) KEDMA, between
The 12 new settlements, estab-
Beer Tuvia and Kfar Menahem;
lished Oct. 7, cover 100,000 du- er with a group of native-born 2) GAL, 6 kilometers east of
Palestininians
belonging
to
the
nams of land owned by Keren
Gath; 3) TKUMA, 10 kilometers
Kayemeth (Jewish National Palestine branch of Hashomer southeast of Beeroth Itzhak; 4)
Hatzair,
is
building
a
collective
Fund), which went uncultivated
BEERI, 6 kilometers southwest of
until the results of the three-year colony at Yassur. Their's is the Beeroth Itzhak; 5) NIRIM, 12
third
such
group
to
go
from
Amer-
experiment were obtained.
kilometers west of Gvuloth; 6)
Beerot Itzhak was the main ica to Palestine. The first two URIM, 5 kilometers southwest of
groups
are
well
established
in
jumping off point in the opera-
Gvuloth; 7) NEVATIM, 10 kilo-
tion. Others were Ruhama and Palestine, one at Ein Hashofet, meters east of Beth Eshel; 8)
named
after
Justice
Louis
D.
the original settlements of Gvulot
HATZERIM, 8 kilometers west
and Bet Eshel. Among the 1,000 Brandeis, and the other at Kfar of Beth Eshel; 9) SHOVAL,. 10 ,
persons, including 300 girls, who Menachem, named after Men- kilometers northeast of Ruhama;
took part in the operation, were achem Ussishkin, past world 10) MISHMAR HA'NEGEV, 15
many American youths who re- president of the Jewish National kilometers south of Ruhama; 11)
ceived their training at Hashomer Fund.
Members of Kibbutz Aliyah KFAR DAROM, 13 kilometers
Hatzair Training Center in the
southwest of Beeroth Itzhak; 12)
U. S. Two hundred lorries and Gimel have helped to make up BENAYAH, 5 kilometers south
other transports were used, in- the total number of 100 chalut- of Yavneh. Another settlement
cluding water trucks, from which zim they have left from America
colonies
water towers in each of the set- within the last year, with one of bringing the total of new
NEVEH ELAN, northwest
tlements were filled. In some its members, Yak Shapiro who is to 13 is
places existing natural . wells were sailing this week, being the 100th of Kiryath Avavirn, near Jeru-
salem.
to go.
put into use.