ZIONISTS IN PALESTINE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 990, 3 December 1910, Page 5

ZIONISTS IN PALESTINE.

. « LARGE ESTATE PURCHASED. By Telesraph-Press Association—Oopyrigl Berlin, December 10. The Zionists have purchased a larj estate in Galilee for a co-operative agi cultural settlement. ' Numerous workmen's dwellings hai been erected in the various Jewish col uios iu Palestine. There arc about 11,000,000 Jews in exi lenco at tho present time, of whom nboi 100,000 aro estimated to he in Palestin Ihe number in Palestine has noticeab increased of recent years. The Pah tine Department of tho Zionist Organis tion issued a roport in July, in whii ) it stated that it had undertaken the a : ministration of tlio Palestine Land B vclopment Company, an English limit, liability company,' which had set ilst tho task of purchasing and cultivate large tracts of land and parcelling the out into small holdings for Jewish settle . with moderate means. This company l : centlv received a crcdit of .610,000 fro ■ tho Jewish National Fund. The Pale s tinn Industry Syndicate has confined : I self in the past year to tho leasing l hot springs, to participating in a come bricks concern, and to founding a sync cato for chemical research in Palestii: The immediate purpose of this new sy dicate is to preniwo good cooking-oil ai i to manufacture"" perfume-oils from t r (lowers Hint grow in tlie Holy Lan ■ An interesting proposal of the manage j is to settle a number of Yemenite Je I isli families on tho land, and to empt them in carpet wearing and other era! under a trained director, whilst they ci devote themselves to , ponltry-farmi: and kitchen-gardening in their leisuri