Fifty religious settlements commemorating fifty leaders of religious Zionism will be established in the Huleh area in Israel under a plan launched here last night at a Chanukah dinner arranged by the Religious Department of the Jewish National Fund.
Rabbi Max Kirshblum, newly-elected president of the Mizrachi Organization of America, who recently returned from Israel, told the 1,500 guests that he had concluded a contract with the Jewish National Fund of Jerusalem for a tract of 3, 000 dunams (750 acres) of land in the Huleh region on which will be constructed the fifty new religious settlements bearing the general name of “Nachlat Hachamishim,” Hebrew for “Settlements of the Fifty. “
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