Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 40

— 40 — meet the grievous situation, which weighed heavily on the organisers of the Movement in Germany and in Palestine, painfully aware as they are of the scores and hundreds waiting their turn for the Aliyah. They did not close their eyes to the emergency and sit idly by. In the course of the period under review, plans were elaborated for the establishment of a Kfar Noar Dati (Religious Youth Village), which is to be built on 350 dunams of Keren Kayemeth land adjacent to Kfar Hassidim. When completed, it will be adapted and equipped for the training of 150 boys and girls. The funds in hand permit the completion by October, 1937, of dormitories, workshops and agricultural opportunities sufficient to train 60 young people. Some of the pupils will work on the farms of the Kfar Hassidim settlers, some on the land belonging to the institution. The vocational and academic training will be given by a staff of teachers to be attached to the institution. While Kfar Noar Dati is in the process of construction, the home of Ahawah, referred to in the previous Report as a project, has been completed, and the institution is now housed in an exemplary building in Kiriat Bialik. It accommodates 110 inmates, ranging in age from nine to sixteen. They are pupils in the schools of the Vaad Leumi and are taught agriculture and trades on the premises of the institution, to which the National Fund granted some twenty dunams of land. Likewise Ben Shemen has expanded by the addition of several buildings, in spite of its heavy financial losses incurred in consequence of the disturbances of 1936, which necessitated far-reaching measures of defence for the protection of an institution in an Arab neighbourhood. A notable addition to the list of closed institutions at the service of the Youth Immigration movement is the Ludwig Tietz School just inaugurated at Yagur, near Haifa. Model buildings have been put up, according to a plan which is adaptable to enlargement up to the accommodation of 150 pupils, but at present there are only 60 boys. A girls' department is to be added in the near future. Carpentry and iron-work are taught, the courses lasting three years. The workshops and class-rooms are situated on a plot opposite to the Kibbuts, while