Speaking before the autonomous governing body created by the League to deal with the problem of refugees from Germany, Dr. Chaim Weizmann urged settlement in Palestine as the best solution for the refugees.
The first known English portrait of a Jew appears on the forest records for 1277 of the County of Essex, England, in connection with a list of fines imposed on citizens for breaking forestry laws.
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