Palestine’s rapid population growth has given local courts the same heavy traffic problem experienced by courts in New York, according to statistics just published here.
Civil cases in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s court increased in 1935 to 13,484, a jump of more than fifty per cent compared to the 8,955 cases in 1934.
Criminal actions have also clogged the same court’s calendar, increasing by about twenty-five per cent from 4,060 to 5,051. The population of the city increased about twenty-five per cent during the year.
Tel Aviv, famed as the first all-Jewish city in the world, has a Jewish population of 135,000.
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