JEWS IN PALESTINE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 9

JEWS IN PALESTINE.

I SOME COLONISATION NOTES. ' Reports of tho- colonies in Palestine! are fast ; : > emoting in their -interest- concerning tho 'suw 1 ' f . cessful : harvest in J'JOS—atßischon lo Ziotti- 1 tho best for. the.last-ten years;. lAmoni:: tW : l", v (over :■ iv' thousand) : families; settled intha " iarins,; representing many thousands of souls.' attachment to ■ tho .soil is fast becoming n feai fure, and the.number of native labouicrs is. ' slowly diminishing, and a Jewish peasant class ' is being formed who mo keeping cattle,.cul<' -tiyatmg wheat, vmc-S; olives, oranges, almonds." raisins, cotton, Vubbeiy bamboo, and. bananas.'. It 'may bo noted that next year' (1910) itt'• aecordanco: with. Jewislr chronology- is a ' Sah« batical year, when the, soil bhouitf ilio fallow;' .'! C,V ''n'i ' CS i S ■ '. s \ ,ms "P the Situation as •follo«s;- Tho colonists alo at a loss how to conform to tho. relißious; 1 observance, , ;! >St V0 (■? -tvWAM must otherwise ovophV* takei .them.. Rabbi Ivuk, of' Jaffa, and other !'v: I.} nbbis_ hovo. suggested that;.; Some. way, but: of:, V-, .' difficulty can be found without '"e 5 n 1? Ti • tho Law, though a liuuibe*- , ot other Rabbis , arc inclined to. the nioro rigid ' * >icw, and hopo-to. tide over the period of recuperation by recourse to charity." ; •'j_'Dr.' Godboy writes that when', ho was in . Palestine fifteen years ago 'there wore 10,(KH ■!>!'<' Jews m tho whole, land, five vcars aco 100,000. ~ 1 and. a -year.-ago, 200,000,; and that'eleven great -. , colonisation,, societies are .\sonstantly to bring tho Jows back to thoir own coimtrv.' - :1 ' j It is' calculated. t)iat quite *10,000 Russian Jewish 1 families ' have petitioned 1 tho- Turkish', < .authorities to be allowed to settle in Turkcv -They have as yet. no definite:reply, as- tfitt ■ Government is hesitating, fearing, to - see - th< : ; v -' rbirth of tho Jowish Question in the Empire. is announced-.that- tho lioxt International Zionist: Conferenco will bo held' at-'Hamburg from December 2G 1 10.31 next. Thi chiof busu noss trilt'-bo. to discuss the as a(Tcot«d Y - - by- tho changed : conditions in >Turkcy, future propaganda work, and the establishment of an .agricultural-bank. ■>,