Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 466

proceeds of the loan for the erection of buildings which would not remain its property, the fact being that Arab schools did while the Jewish schools did not belong to the Government. As a result, however, of the protest of the Jewish Agency, the Government finally agreed that a compensation was due to the Jewish school system in respect of the amount included for Arab schools in the loan schedule. This compensation took the form of an increase of the annual grant-in-aid to the Jewish schools by an amount corresponding proportionately to the annual repayment of that portion of the loan which is spent on school buildings. The representative of the Jewish Agency then raised the question whether it might not be possible to capitalise these additions to the annual grant-in-aid from time to time, so as to allow a more substantial amount to accumulate every few years in the hands of the Jewish educational authority, which it might use for the erection of buildings. Out of this proposal a scheme was subsequently evolved for a separate building loan of £100,000 to be raised by the Vaad Leumi from a private financial source, for which the annual grant-in-aid of the Government would serve as a guarantee. This scheme is now the subject of direct negotiations between the Vaad Leumi and the Government. The annual grant-in-aid was increased in respect of the loan by about £1,000. 2. Out of the proceeds of the Loan an amount of £20,000 was offered for distribution in capital grants to Jewish institutions of agricultural and technical training. An amount twiceas large as that total grant had been appropriated for the construction and equipment of a Government trade school for Arab pupils. The grant of £20,000 was distributed in accordance with the suggestions made by the Jewish Agency, one-half of it being allotted to the Haifa Technical Institute for capital improvements and the other half distributed between the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School, the Ben Shemen Children's Village, the Mizrachi Trade School at Tel-Aviv, the Max Pine Trade School of the Labour Federation at Tel-Aviv, and the new Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. The whole scheme of expenditure on technical education was announced by the High Commissioner to a mixed Jewish and Arab gathering at Haifa in June, 1934. The gathering was addressed also by the Political Representative of the Jewish Agency and the Arab Mayor of Haifa, the former expressing the hope that further grants for Jewish technical education would be made in subsequent years and that a relationship of mutual assistance and an interchange of common experience would develop between the new technical school of the Government and the parallel Jewish institutions. It is understood that the cost of maintenance of the new Arab trade school will be a charge on the regular budget of the Department of Education, and that the grant to the Jewish educational system will be increased correspondingly in the proportion generally-adopted. In view of the fact that it is intended to use the Railway Workshops'of Haifa as a training centre for 466