December 18, 1959 • Page Image 11
…By JOSEF FRAENKEL Moses Montefiore, the great philanthropic a n d religious Zionist, visited Palestine seven times between 1827 and 1875. In 1827, the country was desolate and barren, sunk in lethargy, covered with sand. A thousand Halukkah Jews lived in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias. But at the same time, however, the dawn of Zionism in the Diaspora W.434 beginning. On his last visit in 1875, Moses Montefiore saw the awakening of the ...…

















































