Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. Seite 45

— 45 — were allotted to the Youth Immigration from Germany out of the Labour Schedule. Repeated applications to the Government for a continuance of grants have been fruitless, although the allocations to the closed institutions—Ahava, Ben Shemen, Luwig Tietz School and Beit Ze'irot Misrahi — have not been interrupted. The Kibbutsim took the matter in their own hands. When the youth groups of the Jordan Valley, Dagania A and B, Kvutsat Kinneret and Afikim left those places after completing two years' training, application was made by these settlements for recognition of the Central School at Dagania A as a school of secondary rank. Having established its claim to be considered such, it applied to the Migration Department of the Palestine Government forone hundred students' certificates. These have been granted, 100 certificates and the candidates are now being tested in Preparation Camps in Germany. The expectation is that they will arrive in Palestine by the end of June, 1937. A similar procedure was followed in the case when Givat Brenner dismissed its group. The school applying in its behalf is the District School of the Histadrut Haovedim at Kevutsat Shiller. The second group of 30 for Mishmar Ha-Emek will be secured by the Central School of Ha- Shomer Hatsair. Similarly Kefar Yehoshua and Kfar Yehezkel are applying for 50 students' certificates through its school. The next places to be vacated are Tel-Hai, Gvat, Yagur, Mizra, Merhaviah, and Ginegar. Second groups have already been stationed at Ain Harod, Rodges, and Tel-Yoseph. Ben Shemen has put 65 of its 90 certificates at the disposal of the Juedische Jugendhilfe. Of these 50 will be applied as a beginning to the needs of the Polish youth. A representative of Ben Shemen and one of the Juedische Jugendhilfe (Berlin) are now in Warsaw for the purpose of choosing candidates, 45 between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, five of the age of fourteen and less. The other fifteen certificates yielded by Ben Shemen to the Judische Jugendhilfe will be used in Germany. About five per cent of the 1068 in training at this moment are boys and girls who came to Palestine with their parents without having been in contact in Germany with the office of the Juedische Jugendhilfe. In consultation with the German office by correspondence they were accepted and incorporated into Youth Groups here after a month's probation. A larger percentage is constituted by those who,