Statistics described as the “first complete and official report” on the subject were made public by the United Palestine Appeal today, according to which 36,372 Jews from Germany entered Palestine from January, 1933 to December, 1935. They comprised 70 per cent of Reich refugees who found homes overseas.
The figures were compiled by the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews and made available by Dr. Werner Senator, director of the immigration department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. An analysis shows 24,499 classified as permanent settlers and 11,873 as tourists. Of the permanent settlers, 42 per cent were men, 36 per cent women and 22 per cent children.
Occupational distribution: 1,281 had been engaged in agriculture, 2,500 in manufacturing, 61 in transportation, 1,969 in the liberal professions, 1,757 in the clerical occupations and 439 unskilled laborers.
Age distribution among the permanent settlers: 29.4 per cent between 21 and 30 years, 20.2 per cent between 31 and 40 years, 17.3 per cent between 10 and 20 years, 12.2 per cent between 1 and 9 years, 9.4 per cent between 41 and 50 years, 6 per cent between 51 and 60 years and 3.1 per cent between 61 and 70 years.
In the same period, a total of 134,540 Jewish immigrants from all countries entered Palestine.
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