Israel Digest

Homes for Everybody Housing is an industrial branch that often finds itself under the shadow of the economists' disapproval. It eats up a great part of the national investment, yet does not create permanent sources of employment or production, as would a comparable sum spent on putting up a farm...

FOREWORD This is a condensed description of the economy of Israel in its development since the foundation of the State, and particularly as of 1965. Israel is interesting to the non-Israeli mainly for characteristics distant from, or—it would be better to say— far broader than, economics:...

The Background HE industrialization of a country's economy is a pro-cess always and everywhere beset with problems and difficulties, even where it seems spontaneous, as it did in Western Europe and the United States of America. There, geared to suitable manpower, the obvious exploitation of...

INTRODUCTION During the period of the British Mandate over Palestine, a well-known British colonisation expert, Sir John Hope Simpson, reported that "there was no room in Palestine to swing a cat"; he suggested that, as the "economic absorptive capacity" of the country was so limited, Jewish...

The Democratic Prerogative On August 15, 1961, the people of Israel throughout the land exercised their democratic prerogative for the fifth time by electing their representatives to their parliament, called the Knesset. Election Day brought to a climax a political campaign that, despite...

SETTLEMENTModern Jewish agricultural settlement in the territory which now constitutes the State of Israel dates back to the year 1870 when the French Jewish philanthropic organization, Alliance Israélite Universelle, established at Mikve Israel the first agricultural school for Jewish boys. It...

WATER has always played a dominant part in the life of man. Biblical tradition has many references to the manifestations, destructive or creative, of this major element of nature. It all began with water: not until the waters under the heaven "gathered together unto one place" did the dry land...