Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, today made public a report showing that $47,888,125 had been spent in Palestine by the national funds, which include the Palestine Foundation Fund and the Jewish National Fund.
Urging nationwide support of the Palestine Appeal, Dr. Wise declared that the rebuilding of the Jewish homeland is not “philanthropic” but “the major constructive task before the Jewish people.”
The statistical report shows that in the years of its existence, from 1921 to 1935, the Palestine Foundation Fund expended $26,645,720. The Jewish National Fund, between 1901 and 1935, raised $20,000,000. In two years the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews, a branch of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, raised $1,242,000.
Of the total of $47,888,125 expended by these three inter-related national bodies in Palestine, approximately $18,000,000 was raised in the United States.
The total sum was expended on the following activities in Palestine: 31.2 per cent on the purchase of land, the Jewish National Fund now owning over 100,000 acres of land as the inalienable property of the Jewish people; 18.3 per cent on agricultural colonization, the Palestine Foundation Fund having maintained or founded 65 different settlements; 10.6 per cent on education, the Jewish school system in Palestine growing from 13,000 pupils in 1921 to 40,000 pupils in 1935; 5.6 per cent on public works; and 5.3 per cent on immigration. The Jewish immigration into Palestine from 1919 to 1935 was 259.576.
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