Summary
The National Council of the Jews of Palestine, which in the Jewish Agency memoranda of July 1930 appears as the body on whose recommendation the Agency appoints its Immigration Board, and whose recent memorandum to the Mandates Commission supplies the memoranda’s figures for Jewish building investment in 1924-28 (Palestine: Land Settlement, Urban Development and Immigration, PDF p.84, 98).
Details
- Members of the Jewish Agency’s advisory Immigration Board are appointed by the Agency on the recommendation of the Va’ad Leumi (Jewish National Council) (PDF p.98).
- Its memorandum submitted to the Mandates Commission is quoted for building investment in 1924-28 (Government report figures: Tel-Aviv £2,224,000; Jerusalem £1,558,000; Haifa £498,700; Jaffa £458,000; Tiberias £124,000; Safed £11,300) and for a Jewish contribution, calculated only in proportion to the Jewish share of population in the mixed cities, stated as £3,541,000 — the items listed sum to £3,341,400, with no Haifa item listed, as recorded under Open questions on the source page (PDF p.84).
- The same quotation gives 1,469 private houses and 83 public buildings built in 1919-29 in the thirty-four plantation colonies, and a Jewish community total of well over £5,000,000 invested in house building in the past ten years including 1929 (PDF p.84).
Related pages
Palestine: Land Settlement, Urban Development and Immigration, Jewish Agency, Labour Immigration Schedule