The activities of the Jewish Colonization Association in Israel, Argentina, Brazil, North Africa and Greece were reviewed at a meeting of the JCA’s Council, it was announced here today.
The meeting, which was chaired by Sir Henry D’Avigdor Goldsmid, head reports indicating that existing JCA colonies in Israel are making good progress. The council approved credits for the provision of–communal buildings in Kfar Avigdor, including a school, cooperative store and dispensary, and for additional items of livestock and other materials for individual settlers.
The Council voted credits for a new trade school in Argentina where children of settlers in the JCA colonies will be taught agricultural mechanics. In Brazil, credits will be forthcoming to help settle the sons of colonists on their own farms, to support the colonists hospital and to help the organization which trains young persons intending to take up farming in Israel.
In North Africa, it was reported, work is proceeding normally at the agricultural and training center in Morocco, and the same is true for the loan funds instituted with the Joint-Distribution Committee in Tunis and Morocco. The JCA is also helping in rehousing Jewish victims of the earthquake in Volos, Greece.
The creation of new settlements in the Lachish area, in Israel, will proceed as planned, it was decided by the Council. The work will begin next month following the conclusion of an agreement on technical and financial details with the Jewish Agency. The system of farming in the new colonies will probably be based on commercial crops and cattle, rather than on vegetables and dairy farming as is the case in the older colonies.
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