The Denver Jewish news., 1922-07-26
Steady Progress in
Palestine
JUDGE ROSENBLATT RETURNING
TO AMERICA. MEMBER or
WORLD ZIONIST EXECUTIVE
STATES ACTIVITIES MAINTAIN
ED by KEREN HAYESOD BASIS
FOR JEWISH HOMELAND.

becoming the Jewish Homeland in
every sense of the word. and that
principally through the funds con-
iributed by American Jews lay means
of thc Kcren Hayesod declared Judge
Bernard \. Rosenblatt the American
representative of the World Zionist
Executive in Palestine, who fas just
returned after six months stay in
Palestine. He was especially enthusi-
aStic of the worS of the Chalurzim.
who are abandoning professional and
academic careers in the lands of East
in order to he of service in the up
building of the Jewish Homeland.
He dwelt on tile great interest mani
by the Jews of Palestine in the pass
United States Senate. an event which
evoked considerable rejoicing when
the news arrived III Palestine.
1T is well for American Jews to
realize" said Judge Rosenblatt. ''how
basic in all that takes place in Pal
estine are the funds which they con-
tribute through the Keren Hayesod. 1t
is these funds which maintain all those
activities without which the develop
ment of Palestine would have to come
to II standstill. The work of receiv-
ing and regulating immigration. Of
maintaining ;he system of medical
service and sanitation through the
Medical Unit. the work of supporting
the Hebrew School system. the wori,
of promoting agricultural colonization.
all these activities depend on the
keren Hayesod.'
As an evidence of the encouraging
growth of Palestinian Jewry he in
stanced the fact that Tel-Aviv. which
is on the outskirts of Jaifa. has now
been Incorporated rs n municipality.
and comprises the frs one hundred
world today. 1t has further been All
thorized by the Government 10 float
n bond issue to AN amount of 10000
pounds at 81. percent interest for the
number of public utilities. ...
when | visited the Holy Land two
ycnrs ago" Judge Rosenblatt said.
THE uncertainty that followed the
Versailles Peace Trea'y had settled
like n dark cloud on the old land of
Israel. and the Jews of Palestine were
engaged in the rather unprufitahle hus-
mess of wntchful waiting. But two
years have changed all that In that
period the Jewish population of Pal
cstine has increased over thirty per
cent. most of them immigrants from
Eastern Europe who have passed thru
the fire aud sword of the great war
and the bloody pogroms of the
Ukraine. These men are real pioneers.
Chautzim as they are called in He
brew. men with University degrees
who have cast down their books to
take up the job of stOnc-hreaking on
the roads of Judea and Galilce. They
are the best, human material with
which to rebuild the House Of Israel
for they have been tested in the great
trial of the last decade. and they have
been found not wanting | have seen
them working in their cooperative
settlements. in the valley below. Ma
Zarcth under the shadow of Mount
Tabor. and | fclt that they were the
true Pilgrim fathers who are estah-
fishing II new Israel in the Holy Land.
even as the descendants of the May
flower founded IL new England along
the shores of Massachusetts bay.
There must he Il partnership be
tween American Jews, Judge Roscii-
blatt concluded, and these East Eli-
ropean immigrants whereby the former
will furnish the capital and admin
is rntivc skill, and the latter the barinS
and hrawn for the development of
cstime depends largely upon the Pat
cStine Foundation Fund. (known in
Hebrew as the Keren Hayesod) two
million dollars of which has already
been raised i'm America. 1t is this
fund that has made possible the new
immigration. that has developed the
Medical Unit which serves alike the
needs of Christians Mohammedans.
aud Jews and has established the He
brew Schools. which i'm the short pc
riod of a few years have already re-
introduced the Language of the Bible
ms the mother tongue of the Jews in
the land of Israel"