Yehoshua Hankin becomes director of the PLDC…

Yehoshua Hankin becomes director of the PLDC in 1932.

The JNF, through the PLDC, purchases more than seventy thousand hectares during the Mandate period, chiefly in the valleys—Jezreel, Zebulun, Jordan, Beit Shean, Huleh and Hefer—in the Haifa bay area and in the northern Negev.

The Zionists have built up the Jewish urban and rural settlements in Palestine, perfecting autonomous organizations and solidifying Jewish cultural life and Hebrew education.