Ben-Zvi founds the first Hebrew high school…
1909 CE
Ben-Zvi founds the first Hebrew high school in Palestine in Jerusalem in 1909.
The second redemption agency founded by the Zionist Organization is the Palestine Land Development Company (PLDP), established in 1908 by Otto Warburg and Arthur Ruppin to purchase land for the JNF.
Subsequently, an overseas fundraising mechanism known as Keren Hayesod is also established.
Ruppin commits the Zionist Organization to the settlement venture, helps devise the collective and cooperative forms that make it sustainable, and elevates the farmers to equal status in the settlement enterprise, something the Rothschild administrators had not done.
In urban development, his efforts are cardinal in the purchase of land in Jerusalem and ...