Jaffa, Nazareth, and Jerusalem in Palestine 1932

Jaffa, Nazareth, and Jerusalem in Palestine 1932 **

A rare and wonderful video showing Palestine 1932 life and commercial and scientific activity in Jaffa, Acre, Safed, Nazareth and Jerusalem in 1932.

The video also shows the Palestinian Arab Scouts in this tour of the city of Acre on the occasion of the New Year. The Scout movement in Palestine started in 1912 at St. George’s School in Jerusalem, and participated in the World Scout Jamborees in 1929 and 1933. Palestine was admitted in 1993 as a special member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) even thought they did belong to a national state that has a seat in the United Nations..

(Thanks to Raimo Kangasniemi on YouTube – Finnish author)

Raimo Kangasniemi describes himself: “I have a Master of Arts degree from the university of Tampere in 2008, being a Common History major with undergraduate-level studies in Arts History among other subjects. My interests include astronomy, history, literature, photography and translation. I translate poems from English to Finnish and vice versa as a hobby and have blog (and Facebook pages) for that and several for my own writings.

I am a useless humanist with a love for art, astronomy, history, literature, science, human rights and social justice. I hate oppression.

Events in the year 1932 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

There were 9,555 Jewish immigrants during 1932.
23 January – The founding of Kfar Yona.
28 March – The 1932 Maccabiah Games, the first Maccabiah Games ever held, are opened in Tel Aviv.
19 July – The founding of the Moshav Avihayil on a waste stretch of sand dunes, land owned by the Jewish National Fund.
13 August – Independence Party (an Arab nationalist political party) was established.
1 December – The Palestine Post (now The Jerusalem Post) is published for the first time.

New Zionist Settlements in 1932

Kibbutz Ma’abarot by Romanian Jews affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
Kibbutz Afikim by Russian Jews affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
Moshav Tel-Tzur by The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium teachers led by Haim Boger. The moshav was later on merged with Even Yehuda.
Moshav Beer Ganim by former employees of the Dead Sea Works company. The moshav was later on merged with Even Yehuda.
Moshav Ramat Tyomkin. The moshav merged with Netanya in 1948.
Moshav Neta’im by residents of other moshavim as part of the Settlement of the Thousand plan.
Moshav Ganei Am by immigrants from Germany who were members of the HaOved HaTzioni group.
Moshava Even Yehuda by the “Bne Binyamin” association on the lands acquired by the philanthropist Samuel S. Bloom.
Kibbutz Givat Haim by Jewish European immigrants .