Immigration and Settlement

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Immigration and Settlement

• The Making of the Yishuv

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The Role of Inflows

• Growth escalating standard of living
• Consumption ? Production
• Production ? Investment
• Investment Capital Human capital
• In under-developed country
• Capital import immigration

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Immigration Policy

• Pal. Government
• Absorption considering Arabs
• ? Capitalists free
• ? Quota for labor
• Allocation quotas?

• Zionist authorities
• Dynamic absorption max. immigration
• ? Jewish majority
• Distribution of given quotas

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Zionist programming of immigration and settlement

• Transformation rather than transfer
• Maximum Settlement
• Agriculture in the focus
• Selective immigration"

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Jewish Immigration1920-1939
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Import of Jewish Capital
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Palestine becomes Chief Destination

• World Jewish Migration

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The Geography of

• The Land of Israel

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The Yishuv on the Eve of World War Two

• Demography
• Total Population 1,450,000
• Jewish population 430,000
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• Total land 20,000
  sq. KM
• (or
  3,600,000 Dunam)
• Jewish ownership 1,440,000 Dunam
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