(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Five hundred and twenty-four Jewish pupils attend Missionary Schools in Palestine, it is stated in the report of the Education Department of the Palestine Government Nine Arabs, the report adds, attend the Hebrew schools.
The number of pupils in the schools under the supervision of the Palestine Zionist Executive is now almost as large as all the Government Schools in the country, it was stated in the last report of the Zionist Organization submitted to the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in June 1927. The number of pupils in these schools was 18,593. In the Jewish schools not under the control of the Zionist Organization (the schools maintained by the Anglo-Jewish Association, the Alliance Israelite Universelle and similar bodies) there were during the year 1926-27, 9,125 pupils. The total number of Jewish pupils in Palestine, the report added, including those educated at non-Jewish schools, was 26,481 (14,207 boys and 12,274 girls), or 40.24 per cent of the total number of school children in Palestine.
Accommodation in most Jewish schools, it was stated in a recent official report of the British Government to the League of Nations on the administration of Palestine, is inadequate to the growing population.
The international Review of Missions speaking of the missionary educational work in Palestine, said that this had suffered severely during the war and has had to be built up afresh in the last decade. The Arabs as a rule, it stated, preferred to send their children to the newly established Government schools where the Koran is taught; the Jews, where possible provided their own schools. The mission primary schools, therefore, chiefty serve the Christian community.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
In today’s issue of the Jewish Daily Bulletin you publish a report from Boston beginning “The New England Zionist Regim bed an Executive Committee meeting lasting all day Sunday….” I have before me a Boston daily newspaper describing the meeting “attended by about three hundred Jews.” A correspondent informs me that ## the ## were non-Zionists and members of the Arbelter Ring.
Obviously this was not a meeting of an Executive Committee.
Very Truly yours,
Jacob de Hass
New York, May 8, 1925
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