Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 169

over an area of 1,400 dunams; whereas in the years 5692 and 5693 there have been planted 214,568 trees on an area of 819 dunams. Trees were planted in the following areas : At Kfar Hahoresh 162,217 trees on an area of 620 dunams. AtKfarUsha ... 62,578 „ „ 235 At Sedeh Jacob ... 49,005 „ „ 216 At Mishmar Haemek 21,372 „ „ 70 295,172 „ . „ 1,140 In all, until the end of the 1934/5 winter 1,637,019 trees were planted on an area of 7,513 dunams, pines predominating—there being 1,189,808 pine-trees. In addition, the J.N.F. fosters ancient woods on the hilly ground at Nahalal, at Harbaj-Hartiya and Sheikh Abrek. V. Lease-Contracts. Contracts of lease, rural and urban, continued to be signed during the period under review. 748 rural leases have been signed, classified as follows : Individual lessees ... ... ... ... 717 Groups and organisations, covering in all 1,070 families ...... ...... 20 Village councils and educational institutions ... 11 748 Contracts for building plots were entered into to the number of 1,035, for industrial plots numbering 53, and classified in towns as follows : Jerusalem ... ... ... ... ... 53 Tel Aviv and suburbs ... ... ... ... 467 Haifa ................... 99 Emek Zebulun ... ... ... ... ... 468 Tiberias ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 1,088 In all, 1,836 contracts of lease were concluded. We are now about to sign 400 leases with settlers in the Sharon block. VI. Fund-Raising. A considerable increase has occurred in the income of the Fund during the two-year period covered by this Report. This gratifying fact is first of all due to the increased interest of the Jewish masses in Erez Israel, and also to the ever-growing appreciation of the significance of national land as a basis for the healthy development of the Yishub. The increase of our receipts is reflected in all branches of our fund-raising activity. During the period under review we devoted ourselves particularly to the development of our regular machinery of collection. In a number of countries 169