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Farming colonies in Ottoman Palestine

Agricultural colonies founded from the 1880s with money from European backers, among them Edmond de Rothschild.

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Edmond de Rothschild Primary record 1 2 3
The family foundation's own page says he and his descendants supported 44 settlements. The Peel Commission calls his help a "munificence".
Edmond de Rothschild According to Edmond de Rothschild Self-published 3
The family's foundation on its founder: 44 settlements supported by him and his descendants.

Palestine (region) Primary record 1
Palestine (region) Primary record 1
The commission counts the Jews in Palestine in 1914.

Timeline 1 date

Proof 3 sources

Palestine Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5479), His Majesty's Stationery Office, via UN Question of Palestine archive, 1937. Primary record
munificence of Baron Edmond de Rothschild
nearly 12,000 of them were on the land
in 1914 there were over 80,000.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild (timeline), Ramat Hanadiv, Rothschild Family Foundation. Self-published
Edmond agreed to fund all the expenses of the colonies Rishon le-Zion, Zichron Ya’akov, and Rosh Pina
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Ramat Hanadiv, Rothschild Family Foundation. Self-published
He and his descendants supported 44 settlements, from Metulla in the north to Mazkeret Batya (Ekron)

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