LAND OF PROMISE.
JEWS RETURNING TO PALESTINE THOUSANDS SETTLING IN THE TOWNS. CAPITALISTS ACQUIRING THE JORDAN VALLEY. By Telegraph.— ?ress Association.— Copyright. (Received January 18, 8.45 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 17th Jan. There has been a great incursion of Jews into Palestine since the new Constitution became operative in Turkey. The Jewish population of Jerusalem has increased by many thousands, and tens of thousands have settled at Jaffa (the ancient Joppa), on the coast, Tiberias, Safed, and Mount Carmel. Thousands are flocking from Persia and Russia. Jewish capitalists . are buying land in the Jordan Valley, which was recently the property of the ,ex-Sultan, Abdul Hamid. Safed, a town on a mountainous site thirteen miles north by west of Tiberias, is the seat of a noted Jewish school. A terrible earthquake in 1837 destroyed four thousand Jews. The population of 'the town is composed mainly of Jews, who are attracted by certain prophecies which proclaim that this will be the birthplace of the future Messiah.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 14, 18 January 1910, Page 7
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162LAND OF PROMISE. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 14, 18 January 1910, Page 7
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