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JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Friday, September 25, 197(
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Centenary of Nikveh Israel celebrated in stamp issue
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By A. BEN-DAVID
THE MIKVEH ISRAEL Agricultural School was established in 1870, as an educational facility of the Alliance Israelite Univer-selle of Paris.
Its founder was Y a a k o v (Charles) Netter. He had toured the land of Israel, met its Jewish residents (then concentrated in Jerusalem, Safed and Tiberias), seen their poverty, and heard them speak of wishing to change their way of life.
In the report he sent to Paris, Netter consequently proposed establishment of an agricultural school where Jews could learn a new way of life. Upon completion of their studies, they would settle on land purchased for them, thus setting up Jewish farm communities. When his proposal was accepted, Netter applied to the Sultan of Turkey, who assigned 2,400 dunams (600 acres) for the purpose of establishing an agricultural school.
Netter began working, and gathered round him a group of people who helped put up the first buildings, plant the vine-
CENTENARY O F MIKVEH ISRAEL: two values of IL. 0.40 and 0.80 designed by E. Weishoff, the motif being the school and a portrait of its founder Charles Netter. Printed by the Government Printers (photogravure).
yards, and cultivate the fields. It was one of those early helpers who suggested the name of Mik-veh Israel, which combines the connotation of a Jewish reservoir with the idea of purification in preparation for a new life.
Ten pupils, most of them orphans, were the beginning of the school which was designed to accommodate 30 to 40 boys, and teach them argiculture and other crafts. Netter soon succeeded in attracting additional pupils and the institution developed, thanks I to the generosity of the Ailiatice i Israelite Universelle and a number of private individuals, mainly from France (e.g. Rothschild and Goldschmidt) and England.
Mikveh Israel was the first Hebrew settlement in the renascent land of Israel; it was soon followed by other villages settled by Jewish farmers who sent their sons to agricultural school. There, in accordance with Netter's vision, they learned to raise fruit that would be suitable for export.
MIKVEH ISRAEL FULFILLED its function and grew famous. Jews from many countries sent their chidren there to study, and it absorbed and trained many who came with the intention of settling. Some of the principals who came after Netter followed in his footsteps; others made original contributions, introducing new methods and activities into the institution.
In 1912, alumnus Eliahu Krause became the head, a post he was to hold for 42 years. During his tenure, the First World War broke out, making contact with France and the "Alliance" impossible. The school then found itself in straitened circumstances, and could obtain no help from the local population. There was famine in the land, and many people were deported by the Turkish authorities.
The replacement of Turkish rule by the British Mandatory Government heralded a new era for Mikveh Israel, The third (Continued on Page 46) See MIKVEH ISRAEL
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