Nahalal. Agricultural School for Girls

Image from the book: Jewish Palestine: A Celebration of the Yishuv

In January 1933, Der Jüdische Arbeiter, the fortnightly of the Social Democratic Poale Zion in Vienna, published a report dated 29 December 1932: “The topic of the day is the tragedy in Nahalal where a bomb has killed a settler and his nine-year-old son. The entire Yishuv is convinced that, like various earlier attacks, this too is part of a coordinated terror campaign and that only the insufficient zeal of the police is to blame for the fact that the perpetrators are not identified and caught. In fact, security is generally rather poor in the land. Recently, another attack on Beth Alpha’s flock took place, the following day, three English tourists were robbed when they were mugged on the way from Jerusalem to Amman. In Transjordan, the situation is so tense that a group of Jewish boy scouts who had departed on a major excursion into the realm of Emir Abdallah the previous week were forced to cut their trip short and return because, in Amman itself, the Transjordanian capital, they needed a police escort wherever they went and they were prohibited, on safety grounds, from venturing into the countryside.”

Eliahu Bros.—Jaffa & Tel Aviv.