Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 175

total number up to fifty (Hedera and Ain Harod in English in preparation); three booklets of the children's Hebrew Moladetenu Library; a Report of the Youth Conference called by the K.K.L. at Ginegar; Erez Israel, the Land of the Children (devoted to the " Sefer Hayeled "); material for arranging a K.K.L. corner in schools and youth hostels; Bamoledeth (reading material for school children); a school calendar; two new series of Palestine songs. Other propaganda material included a short film of Emek Zebulun (400 metres); a series of lantern slides " Sport in Erez Israel " with accompanying lecture; a new and improved edition of the Palestine Map (65 x 45 cm.), a series of coloured diagrams showing the development of Erez Israel and the K.K.L., photographs of current events for our press service, two series of pictures issued by a private firm at our suggestion, new stamps (Bialik, Motzkin, Kremenezky, Rothschild), a K.K.L. pin for tourists, K.K.L. boxes with new design. Tourists. Jointly with the Keren Hayesod and the Jewish Agency, the Keren Kayemeth has continued to finance the Zionist Information Bureau for Tourists. The number of tourists who have taken advantage of the services of the Bureau has been particularly great during the period under review. A new edition of the Guide to New Palestine was published in English, German and French. VIII. K.K.L. Insurance Activity. The connection between the K.K.L. and the Phoenix Insurance Co. embraces the European Continent, North Africa, etc. The K.K.L. Insurance Department can report a development which was hardly affected by the economic crisis. Up to the end of 1934 the total K.K.L. figures represented 84,000 insurance policies to the value of £P. 19,700,000. The payments to the K.K.L. of the Phoenix represent a total of £ P. 59,000 net. Since October, 1931, an agreement has been signed between the K.K.L. and the Prudential Assurance Company, the largest English Insurance Company, for Great Britain and Ireland. Obituary. Together with the Jewish people in general and the Zionist Organisation in particular, the Keren Kayemeth Leisrael mourns the passing of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Haim N. Bialik, Yehuda Leib Motzkin, Victor Jacobson and Shmaryahu Levin. The Keren Kayemeth mourns the death of Johann Kremenezky and Samson Rosenbaum, who were among those who laid the foundations of our Fund. We also mourn the loss of the following devoted K.K.L. workers : Dr. J. Sapir (Jerusalem), Nathan Miljukowski (Transylvania), Leopold Fischer (Transylvania), Rafael Lubotzky (Riga), J. Jassinowsky (Baranovice), Haim Sachs (Shavly). 175