more for our Federation and. our movement if I am relieved of the duties which have been mine during the past three years. Our Zionism must mean for us Judaism in all of its phases. Zionism is a complete and harmonized Judaism. Nothing Jewish, whether it be the Jewish. land, the Jewish language, the Jewish religion, the Jewish people, can be foreign to a Zionist. We may differ in many of our views, but we are all agreed in our love
of Jewish life and in our hopes for the redemption of the Jewish spirit. Zionism must use every legitimate means for the accomplishment of its end: the revival of the Jewish people, its spirit and its land. That is the one great hope for the Jew.
Respectfully submitted,
REPORTS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
PALESTINE COMMITTEE.
The Palestine Committee of the Federation of American Zionists begs to report the following recepits for Palestinian institutions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. Olive Tree Fund, $944.04; Bezalel, $554.99; Palestine Industrial Syndicate, $125.00; Pflanzungsverein Palaestina, $47.50; Kulturfond, $15.00; Jerusalem Library, $5.00; Bezalel Rug, $50; Palaestinaressort, $.85; Share Palestine Land Development Co., $5.00; total, $1,747.38.
From these figures, it will be seen that the Zionists of this country have not yet awakened to the absorbing importance of practical work in Palestine and to their duty in furthering this work. It is to be hoped that the financial support accorded our Palestinian institutions during the coming year will leave no room for such criticism.
The Palestine Committee also reports that, at its suggestion, a Joint Bezalel Committee has been formed, which now comprises the Federation of American Zionists, the Poale Zion and the Bezalel Organization of New York.
The Palestine Commission is now formulating many new plans for further practical work in Palestine. The latest achievement of the Commission in this direction is the Palestine Land Development Co., recently organized by Prof. Otto Warburg. The object of this company is to cultivate the lands of the National Fund in order to lease them to Jewish farmers. At the time this report is presented to the convention I shall be in Palestine, and
I expect during my two months' stay there to investigate the work of this company thoroughly, and to report on it in detail to the Executive Committee of the Federation upon my return in October. It will then be definitely stated what measure of support is expected from American Zionists for this undertaking.
I take the liberty of incuding in this report a statement on the Achusath Nachla, although this soceity has not been organized under the auspices of the Palestine Commission but through my personal initiativee The Achusath Nachla Association of America is to be composed of one hundred members, each of whom is to pay a sum of $3,000 in a period of ten years, in yearly instalments of $300. The society is to purchase 4,000 dunams of land and to plant it with orange and other fruit trees. At the end of fifteen years, the land is to be divided into parcels and allotted to members. Only men of known character and good standing in their communities are eligible to membership, for it is intended to form a model American Jewish colony in Palestine by this means. Up to the present time, the Achusath Nachla has enrolled thirty members, and I am sanguine that the remainder can be secured within a short time if the delegates to this convention will undertake to further this plan by recommending it to suitable persons. Dr. David Blaustein, who is acting secretary of the Achusath Nachla Association in my absence, and who is a delegate to this convention, will readily give