TEL AVIV

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1929, Page 11

TEL AVIV

A Palestine and Near East Exhibition and Fair, showing every aspect of Palestinian development, including art, music, handicraft, agriculture, building, public health, colonisation, machinery, and radio, formed part of the celebration of the twentieth annivers-

ary of the founding of Tel Aviv just held, says the “.San Francisco l'limnicle.’’ A Jewish world congress to stimulate interest in Palestinian pro ducts and an international crmfereiice of industrialists, with deV-gates from Europe, South Africa, Canada, and the United States to cons bier problems of export trade, were also features ol the celebration.

The site o' Tel Aviv was purchased in 1900 for about £2-1.00, it being then little more than a heap of .sand dimes. To-day the city has a population of 40,000, and its industry and commerce are appraised at £5,000,000. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has just celebrated its fourth anniversary. Six departments have been established, each aiming to contribute to some phase of the new Jewish life in Palestine. Its students and faculty represents scholars from all parts ot the wor’d. and the international character of the library collection is second only to that of the League of Nations at Geneva. Five million dollars have been spent in the last ten years by the Zionist organisation for the promotion of the Hebrew educational system in Palestine. j A fund of £IOO,OOII for immediate relief work among the Jews of Bessarabia will be raised, as the result of; a decision taken by the Emergency j Belief Conference recently called by the; American Jewish Conference, the Ru-i manian-Bevsarabian Relief Committee, and the United Rumanian Jews of America. The Federation of American

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Jews of Lithuanian descent also seeks to secure immediate relief for flip Jews in their native country. The Joint Distribution Committee bus already spent £22,(.00 from the emergency fund to relieve distress among the Jews of Bessarabia, Lithuania, and Poland.

The report of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, whose twentieth annual convention was held last March, states that new immigration centres for European Jews who are unable lit remain in their native countries, and who are hatred from entering the United Stalin, must he established. In co-operation with other organisations, 20,00') Jews have been settled in

l countries other than the I'nited States and Canada bv this organisation. A pro : e-t, stili under debate, exists (■> ''settle some of the Jewish victims o'' >' East European condition:; in the south lof France, as farmers and agrn uiutrat i workers. Jewish immigration to Belj gium is greatly increasing, and Belgian Jewish leaders are concerned over the ■ fact that these immigrants tend to concentrate in the larger cities, such as Antwerp and Brits sols, where unemployment exists. A movement to return to the fo'd I exist- among th° Marranos. those Jews jof Spain and Portugal who officially : forsook their religion during the days :o p the Inquisition to embrace Clirisitianity. but who secretly remained true to the fa : th of their fathers. A memo- | random was recently presented to the Governor of Praganza by a deputation of Catholic women, asking him to prohibit the official formation of a Jewish ; community by the Marranos. based n ■ the contention that the latter are F'-ee-i masons. This demand was rejected by the Governor, who declared that the Jewish religion must be respected in common with othe religions.