“land Settlement in Palestine” Subject of New Book on Palestine Land Problem

“Land Settlement in Palestine” is the name and subject of a new book on the Palestine land problem around which the present political situation of the Zionist movement centers, published recently in London by Messrs. Victor Gollancz, Ltd. The timely volume is the work of a well-known Palestinian political economist, Dr. A. Granovsky, and is the third of his books on the subject of Palestine land policy.

The outstanding feature of the new book is to be found in its first and longest chapter, entitled, “National and Private Ownership,” in which the author comes to the conclusion, on the basis of the experience of the Jewish National Fund, that the facts in the development of Palestine during the past ten years have proved the theory of national ownership of land to be justified in practice. The lease system, he asserts, as applied by the Jewish National Fund, works to the advantage of the farmer and home builder. Other chapters of the book deal with the following subjects: “Land Policy of the Government”; “Haifa Bay Land Policy”; “The Municipal Land Policy of Tel-Aviv”; and “The Mortgaging of Leasehold.” The final chapter in the book of Dr. Granovsky summarizes the history and the objects of the Jewish National Fund.