Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 166

Acquisition of Urban Land. In Jerusalem. For the Hebrew University .. Teachers' Training School, Beth Hakerem In Tel Aviv. For suburb B (teachers and officials) Girls' Farm " Hazafon " ... Extension of plot for " Ohel Shem " Extension of Boruchov Quarter In Haifa. Site for Mizrachi Workers' Building In Tiberias. Adjoining the Hot Springs ... The total lands of the J.N.F. Rural Urban 9,451 sq. metres 1,940 „ „ --- 11,391 sq. m. 10,710 sq. metres 26,089 „ 357 „ „ 284,534 „ „ --- 321,690 460 „ 87,230 „ Total ... 420,771 sq.m. the end of April, 1935, were : . 330,387 metric dunams. ■ 21,610 „ Total ... ... 351,997 metric dunams. Emek Hepher. During the period under review all the legal proceedings in regard to Emek Hepher were concluded and, except for a tract of 300 dunams which is still the subject matter of an action by Bedouins, about to be decided by the Court, all the land purchased in the Valley has passed into the possession of the J.N.F. and has been allocated to the settlers. The allocation proceeded on the basis of topographical survey and detailed examination of the nature of the soil according to various classifications. Eighteen points of settlement will be established in Emek Hepher comprising 1,420 agricultural farms, of units of 15-22 dunams. Already in the year preceding the period under review settlement began here. Despite the many difficulties which handicapped the first settlers when they began their work, development is already visible in the entire Emek Hepher, particularly in the settlements of workers' groups, who have succeeded during the course of the year in establishing the foundations of their farms, cultivation of orchards, irrigation, growth of fodder and vegetables, and, in a small measure, selling their products on the town market. The agricultural settlements in Emek Hepher, although the greater part 166