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 The Jewish National Fuad 
 
 O VLR yonder is the land that thrills the j 
 Jewish heart with splendid memories. 
 
 It is the land of our glorious past,—Palestine. 
 
 No self-respecting Jew can afford to 
 disregard and forsake Palestine. 
 
 The Jewish National Fund has under¬ 
 taken the task of redeeming the soil of 
 Palestine for the Jews willing to cultivate it 
 and live on it. 
 
 The Jewish National Fund wants to get 
 back for the Jewish people that which any 
 civilized nation would deem the greatest of 
 its treasures. 
 
 All land that may be acquired in Palestine 
 by the Jewish National Fund is to be the 
 
 permanent and inalienable property of the 
 Jewish people. 
 
 Should you not consider it an honor and 
 a privilege to share in this work? 
 
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WHAT HAS THE NATIONAL FUND 
 DONE IN PALESTINE? 
 
 It has promoted Agricultural Colonization. 
 
 The Jewish National Fund has so far acquired over 
 10,000 dunams of ferti'e land in various parts of Palestine. 
 On this land there now exist three Workmen’s agri¬ 
 cultural colonies: Dagania, Kinereth and Merchawja, the 
 latter on a co-operative basis, and five different farm 
 industries, each of them an experiment as to new possibil¬ 
 ities in Jewish agricultural pursuits, amongst them a training 
 farm for men and one for girls. By the granting of a hyp¬ 
 othecary loan the Jewish National Fund has also secured, 
 for future acquirement, a large tract of exceedingly fine soil. 
 
 In Hulda and Ben Schamen (on the Jaffa-Jerusalem 
 Railway line) the Jewish National Fund has covered a space 
 of 2200 dunams with about 40,000 fruit trees, the 
 prospective income of which is destined for the educational 
 needs ot the Jews in Palestine. 
 
 Through the Anglo-Palestine Co., (a filial institution 
 of the Jewish Colonial Trust, London) the Jewish National 
 Fund has granted loans to individuals and groups in the 
 Jewish colonies enabling them to establish themselves 
 firmly and to extend their plantations. The new work¬ 
 men’s colonies Ain Ganim and Nachlath Jehuda were 
 especially benefited by long term credits from the Jewish 
 National Fund. 
 
 It has promoted Rural and Urban settlements. 
 
 By the granting of extensive credits to the Anglo- 
 Palestine Co., the Jewish National Fund brought about 
 the erection of the beautiful suburb Tel- Aviv in Jaffa, 
 which has raised the prestige of the Jew in Palestine. 
 Out of the repayments on account of the loan for Tel-Aviv 
 further credits were granted for the erection of Nachlath 
 Benjamin, another flourishing Jaffa suburb. 
 
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The Jewish National Fund has contributed a great 
 deal to the solving of the serious problem of Jewish labor 
 for the Jewish colonies by providing dwellings for Jewish 
 laborers in many colonies. With the help of a special 
 fund it had built up to July 1st, 1913, fifty-two one family 
 houses and thirteen barracks, housing 135 families in all, 
 besides two large bachelor dormitories in Petach Tikvah 
 and Chederah. Most of these accommodations were let 
 to the Jewish refugees from Yemen, a sturdy and faithful 
 tribe of our race, now fleeing from unbearable persecution, 
 to whom Palestine is the ideal haven of refuge, and who 
 promise to become a most useful element in the agricultural 
 development of the country. 
 
 It has aided the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts of 
 Jerusalem to settle Jewish workmen of the filigree atelier, 
 with their families, on National Fund land at Ben Schamen. 
 Each family has a cottage, with a plot of land for garden¬ 
 farming. Domestic industry is thus established in the 
 open country and connected with agricultural pursuits. 
 
 j It has promoted Institutions of Public Utility. 
 
 The Jewish National Fund has provided the Bezalel 
 with two large well-situated houses. This school, founded 
 in 1905, now employs several hundred Jewish men and 
 women, and has opened up new sources of industry for 
 the many Jews in the Holy Land who had been existing 
 upon alms. 
 
 It has provided the Hebrew High Schools (gymnasia) 
 in Jaffa and Jerusalem with the sites for their buildings and 
 has similarly given, at a cost of 100,000 francs, the site for 
 the Jewish Technical Institute, soon to be opened at 
 Haifa. 
 
 Of late the Jewish National Fund has also 'pledged 
 a free site for the proposed new hospital in Jaffa, a matter 
 of dire necessity. 
 
 The capital of the Jewish National Fund at the end of 
 June, 1913, has reached the sum of 3,490,524 Marks, 
 about 73% of which were invested in Palestine. 
 
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YOU MAY HELP THIS FUND 
 
 By subscribing a certain sum as a Voluntary an¬ 
 nual tax. 
 
 By purchasing one dunam or more of land m 
 
 Palestine in your own name and presenting it to the 
 National Fund. One dunam costs Ten Dollars. The 
 purchaser of a dunam will have his name entered 
 in a special land register, and receive an artistic 
 certificate. This land will be exclusively devoted to 
 settlement by Jewish agricultural laborers. 
 
 By planting one or more Trees, at the cost of 
 $1.50 each, in the name of your friend or relative. 
 These trees have already provided many Jewish 
 families with employment, and later the profit real¬ 
 ized out of the sale of the fruit thereof, will go 
 towards the maintenance of Jewish Educational In¬ 
 stitutions in Palestine. 
 
 By inscribing in the Golden Book of the Jewish 
 
 National Fund the name of any person whom you 
 desire to show particular honor, or whose memory 
 you would like to perpetuate, which will be done on 
 payment of One Hundred Dollars at once or in in¬ 
 stallments within two years. The inscriber, or the 
 person inscribed, receives a beautiful certificate 
 suitable for framing. 
 
 And there are other ways of contributing to the 
 Fund, which will cheerfully be explained to you 
 upon rerpiest. 
 
 WILL YOU HELP THE FUND? 
 
 All remittances, orders for leaflets and inquiries 
 should be addressed to the 
 
 Jewish National Fund Bureau for America 
 
 44 EAST 23rd STREET 
 
 NEW YORK CITY