Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 224

have been assisted to settle in Palestine, who have made good there. Besides that, a large number of tourists have gone and continue to go to Palestine with the help of the advice from our Palestine Office. These include many non-Zionists, who after their return, under the fresh impression of what they have seen, acknowledge the Zionist idea or at least become contributors to the national funds. The Palestine Office also renders legal assistance to the immigrants and has also intervened successfully in the question of deportations, which was recently acute. The sale of Shekolim is constantly increasing. In the year 1933-34 the number sold was 347, and we hope that this will be exceeded in the present year. MOROCCO. During the last two years the Zionist situation in Morocco has: appreciably developed. The younger generation, despite the negative or occasionally even hostile, attitude of the Councils of the Jewish communities, on the one hand, and of the teaching staff of the Alliance Israelite, on the other, is turning decisively towards Zionism. The movement would have made much more progress if the Zionist bodies, which are barely tolerated, had had means at their disposal for effective propaganda and the possibility of more direct action. The journal L'Avenir Illustré, despite these unfavourable conditions, has been carrying on the good fight for nearly ten years. It has, besides, served as an instrument of communication between the Zionists and the French elements in the country who are sympathising more and more with the Zionist ideal. L'Union Marocaine, the organ of assimilation, was established in 1932 for the exclusive purpose of carrying on a vigorous offensive against the Zionist movement in this country, but this offensive has rather resulted in manifesting the solidity of our own position. Despite the delicate situation of the Zionist bodies in Morocco,, as in the other Arabic-speaking countries, the pro-Palestinian demonstrations have attracted even more important gatherings of listeners. Unfortunately Morocco has never yet been visited by any members of the Executive of the Zionist Organisation. In the view of local Zionists, it is time that the Zionist Organisation should increase its authority by not limiting its rôle to purely Zionist propaganda, at least in Arabic-speaking countries, but by taking an increasing part in the affairs of the local communities, from which the prestige of Zionism as a whole will benefit. Pending thecreation of the local Zionist Federation the work is being carried on under the auspices of an Executive Committee with limitedpowers. 224