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near future to grow to 3,500 houses. In the same area two other village settlements are rising, one entirely for Germans, where the settlers will have a small-holding of four to five acres.
TEL AVIV’S GROWTH
If Haifa has the economic future, Tel Aviv maintains its hegemony in the economic present. In the last two years its population has doubled, so that it is now the largest single town in the country, with over 100,000 inhabitants. It has burst, as it were, its physical banks, and is spreading all round Jaffa, of which it was till a few years ago but a suburb. It has a school population of 20,000. It is now a full-fledged municipality, and its municipal budget amounts to some $5,000,000, and would enable its trade to be more adequately dealt with than is possible in the present port, even with the improvements made by the government. That demand will have to be seriously met if the present rate of expansion in Jaffa-Tel Aviv and its Judaean hinterland is maintained. The three main branches of the economy of Palestine, citrus growing, industry and commerce, are at the moment most completely exemplified in that area.
What has happened in the last two years is that Palestine has established its place as an important economic centre of the whole of the Near and Middle East. That is due in great part to the inflow of industrious and intelligent emigrants from Central Europe who bring material and physical resources and, what is more important, intellectual resources and the creative force of an ideal.
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