Zionist Organization of America, 15% by contributions from communities and patients in Palestine, 3% by miscellaneous individual contributions and 2% by the government of Palestine.
21,031 CHILDREN IN AGENCY’S SCHOOLS
The number of children attending the schools of the education department of the Jewish Agency rose from 19,449 in the school year 1928-1929 to 21,031 in the school year 1929-1930. The report also shows that there are now 230 schools under the department supervision..
The budget of the education department for the year 1929-1930 amounted to $637,700 which was obtained as follows: $381,035 from the Jewish Agency (through the Palestine Foundation Fund), $96,500 from the government of Palestine, $27,795 from the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, $130,420 from tuition fees and grants from local funds, and $1,770 from other sources. Including a supplementary budget and certain items met by the schools themselves out of income the total expenditures of the schools maintained by or affilliated with the department is estimated at about $875,000.
131 IN HEBREW UNIVERSITY
Reporting on the Hebrew University, the Jewish Agency says that for the University the year 1929 was one of consolidation rather than of expansion, new developments having been postponed in view of the unsettled condition of the country. The number of regular students attending the University courses in the Winter term 1929-1930 was 131 and the budget for the financial year 1929-1930 was $260,000.
The Jewish Agency also reports that in accordance with the provisions obtained in the Jewish community regulations published March 1, 1930, 4,657 names of people who desire to be excluded from the community have been struck off the registers of the Jewish community, representing roughly 5.7% of the registered voters.
The Agency’s report also explains the formation of the enlarged Jewish Agency and contains the full text of the constitution of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and reports on the expenditures of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Z. O. SPENT $2,966,130
In the financial year ended September 30, 1929, the Zionist Organization and its affiliated bodies spent in Palestine $2,966,130, divided as follows: Palestine Foundation Fund $1,362,285. Jewish National Fund $995,680, Hadassah Medical Organization $553,840, and the Woman’s International Zionist Organization $54,325.
The main items of expense of the Palestine Foundation Fund during the financial year ending September 30, 1929, were $465,615 for agricultural cultivation, $459,745 for urban colonization, $394,545 for urban education, $119,310 for public works, and $56,055 for labor and immigration. The total receipts of the Palestine Foundation Fund during the financial year ending September 30, 1929 were $1,940,370.
MILLION MORE EXPENDED
Besides the money spent in Palestine by the Jewish Agency and its affiliated bodies, roughly $1,000,000 were spent up to the end of February, 1930, by the Palestine Emergency Fund, while substantial sums were invested by the Palestine Colonization Association (PICA), the Palestine Economic Corporation of New York, the Palestine Corporation and Economic Board for Palestine, of London, and by business organizations such as the Palestine Electric Corporation, Palestine Plantations Limited, the Jaffa Plantation Company, Palestine Potash Limited, etc., etc.
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