Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 382

•3. Growth according to Party. The following table shows the growth according to denomination (General, Mizrachi, and Histadruth Haovdim or Labour Confederation). School Enrolment. Increase as against 5693. Percentage 5693 5695 Absolute Increase. Percentage. of pupils in 5695. General Mizrachi ... Histadruth 14,444 6,663 2,804 19,428 8,457 4,903 4,984 1,794 2,099 34.6% 26.9% 74.9% 59.3% 25.7% 15.0% Total ... 23,911 32,788 8,877 37.1% 100.0% This table shows that the pupils receiving instruction in the General schools amount to about 60 per cent, of the total. About 25 per cent, of the total visit the Mizrachi institutions, and 15 per cent, of the pupils visit the Histadruth Haovdim schools. From the point of view of relative increase, the schools of the Histadruth take first place (almost 75 per cent.), followed by the General schools (34.6 per cent.), and lastly the Mizrachi schools (26.9 per cent.). The largest number of new pupils have been absorbed by the General schools—4,984, more than half of all the pupils (55.1 per cent.) enrolled in all the schools in the years 5694 and 5695. The schools of the Histadruth absorbed 2,099 (23.6 per cent.), and of the Mizrachi—1,794 (20.2 per cent.). B. Number of Schools. During the last two years forty new schools have been opened by the education authorities of the Knesseth Israel, and their number now amounts to 312 as against 272 in 5693. Among the new schools are twenty-seven kindergartens and fifteen elementary schools. On the other hand, one vocational school was closed down and another is no longer under the control of the Knesseth Israel. Of the twenty-seven new kindergartens, two belong to the General class and twenty-seven to the Histadruth (seventy-two in 5695 as against forty-five in 5693). The number of Mizrachi kindergartens has decreased by two. The fifteen new elementary schools are divided as follows : five General, three Mizrachi, seven Histadruth. The large majority of the new schools have been opened in Tel-Aviv and in the Labour settlements. C. Number of Teachers. Simultaneously with the increase of the school enrolment and the number of schools, the number of teachers has also increased : from 930 in 5693 to 1,217 in 5695—an increase of 287 or 30.9 per cent. 382