Arnold Bernstein, founder of the shipping concern bearing his name operating liners between Havre, Antwerp and New York under the German flag, is one of the founders of the new Palestine Shipping Company which will initiate regular fortnightly sailings between Haifa and Trieste on February 22.
The concern, in which other German Jewish capitalists are interested, will operate the 10,000-ton liner “Tel Aviv,” which is now on a Mediterranean cruise. The vessel is of Palestine registration and flies the Palestine flag.
The liner, which has accommodations for 400 passengers, will operate as a one-class boat. Its crew is largely Jewish and it will have a training school in which fifteen or twenty apprentices will be trained for nautical service. The liner’s personnel includes many former employes of German steamship lines.
The vessel will have a kosher kitchen and a synagogue constructed in replica of a famed Hamburg edifice.
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