Twenty thousand Jewish immigrants have entered Palestine from the outbreak of the war up until July, it was reported today in the “Palestine and Middle East”. All these immigrants have been absorbed into various branches of the economic life of the country. the article states.
Meanwhile, a joint representation of Jewish and Arab citrus growers today cabled a petition to the Colonial Office in London asking that loans be granted on additional 40,000 dunams of citrus growers, besides those already granted on 170,000 dunams. Before cabling London the citrus growers first consulted Captain Oliver Lytteton. Prime Minister Churchill’s personal representative in the Near East.
The twentieth anniversary of the settlement of Nahalal in the Valley of Jezreel, was celebrated over the week-end. This anniversary, which also marks the beginning of the redemption of the Emek Jezreel region, emphasized the growth of the Jewish National Fund possessions from 6,000 dunams to 82,000; and from one settlement to thirty, in which 9,400 people are now living.
The four swamps that existed in Nahalal and which were a breeding place for malarial mosquitos have long been converted into the source of an irrigation system. The transforming of the swamps was praised by the anti-malarial commission of the league of Nations.
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