According to Haaretz, there are at present between 8,000 and 9,000 unemployed Jews in Palestine. In Tel Aviv, the number of Jewish unemployed is between 3,000 and 4,000, in Haifa between 1,500 and 2,000, in Jerusalem there are about 600 Jewish unemployed, and in the colonies over 2,500. In the colonies the position of the Jewish unemployed is particularly bad, the paper states.
A new Jewish colony has been established near Kefar Saba. The colony, which is known as Sadot Warburg, is to be settled by immigrants from Germany, and the first group of 16 Jewish families from Germany have already occupied the Jewish settlement. The total area of the new colony is 450 dunams, and it is expected that it will finally support between 40 and 50 families. Each family will receive between seven and fifteen dunams of land. Some of the settlers arrived in Palestine about 18 months ago with the assistance of the Council for German Jewry. Another section of the settlers are capitalist immigrants.
Before occupying the settlement, the 16 families had erected the houses for themselves. Thirty more houses will be erected within the next few months.
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