RISE OF PALESTINE

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1934, Page 9

RISE OF PALESTINE

RAPID PROGRESS IN SETTLEMENT. NATIONAL HOME OF JEWS, j Perhaps few people realise how much progress has been made by the Jews in Palestine under the British mandate. In January this year the Jewish population tfas estimated at 245,000, of whom 63,000 were added in the last two years. In 1933 the natural > increase was. 4000, and the immigrants numbered 35,000. The exodus of Jews from Germany has been considerable, although the greater part of the German-Jewish population cannot emigate because doors are nearly everywhere shut or nearly shut to immigration. Of the 50,000 "<or 60,000 Jews who left Germany last ye’ar some 9000 have gone to Palestine. We could hardly expect all these, political refugees to be suitable setters, buttthe difficulties are faced with the unflagging zeal which has marked Jewish efforts in their regained national home. At Tel-Aviv, the beautiful new city which the Jews have built, £600,000 worth of new building was done last year, and a shortage of labour is reported in both industry and agriculture.