The wife and three children of Samuel Fishman, New York Zionist leader, left for Palestine Friday on the Pulaski. Mr. Fishman plans to join them there as soon as he liquidates his business affairs here, he stated. He resides in Brooklyn.
By sending his family to Palestine before his departure, Fishman is following the example of more than sixty families of American Jews, who have also gone to Palestine ahead of their husbands and fathers.
“My purpose in sending my family to Palestine at this time,” said Fishman, “is primarily the belief that Jews should have their own homeland, I, in common with other sincere Zionists, love Palestine. Another important consideration is that I am anxious that my children receive a purely Jewish education and the proper Jewish environment. Only in Palestine is that possible.”
The children are Hertzl, thirteen; Arye, nine, and Bas-Sheva, eight. Fishman has purchased an orange grove consisting of twenty-five dunams (about six acres).
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