Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 328

The Company will work conjointly with the Keren Hayesod and will be controlled by the Executive, and the existing apparatus of the Agency will carry out the work of the Company. The main principle guiding the Company in its work is to carry out complete enterprises and only within the limits of actual cash or with the proceeds of share issues, loans, etc., so that the settler should not have to be content merely with bills, promises, etc., when he is in need of ready cash for the continuance of his work. G.—New Colonisation. 1. General Observations. - After a period of eight years within which hardly any new colonisation work was undertaken, the Keren Hayesod has been in a position this year to resume its contributions towards new colonisation. During these years of inactivity, which was caused by a lack of funds, the Keren Kayemeth succeeded in acquiring extensive areas of land in Judea and the Sharon, among which is included the' Emek Hefer area (Vadi Havareth). The need for the acquisition of new tracts of land and the demands of thousands of Haluzim, who have temporarily settled in the existing colonies or in auxiliary holdings, for land on which to settle, have impelled about 2,000 families to occupy temporarily the land acquired by the Keren Kayemeth, trusting that the Keren Hayesod would soon be in a position to grant them the necessary loans for permanent settlement. While occupying the land they worked as labourers either in towns or in colonies adjacent to their land. They saved some of their wages, and with the help of credit institutions, private and public, they succeeded in laying down the foundation of their future holdings. The numbers of families who occupy Keren Kayemeth land and who wait their turn for loans for colonisation are as follows : 580 families in Emek Hefer ... ... ... 12 units. 780 families in Judea and Sharon ... ... 14 units. 220 families in Valley of Esdraelon ... ... 5 units. 1580 31 units. Apart from these there is room for colonising about 150 families on the reserve lands in the settlements in the western Valley of Esdraelon, and when the irrigation installations are completed, a further 200-250 families could be colonised there. Kfar Chassidim is one of such colonies, where, after the supply of sufficient quantities of water, the settlers consented to forgo their rights to 3,000 dunams of land to be utilised for new colonisation. The advantage of the present settlers over those that settled previously on the land consists not only in the great experience which they gained in agriculture prior to their being colonised, but also in the fact that each one of them succeeded in saving in the meantime considerable sums sufficient to establish some of the necessary branches in his future holding, and thus substantially to 328