| Show hailed as jewish Cult cultural uyal revival tel aviv palestine this thriving city at the eastern end of the bledl tarro torr nenn anclin la Is singular to in the world as the first all jewish city since the dispersion of the jewish race in 70 A D in outward appearance tel aviv greatly resembles a prosperous california seaside town but it Is the economic and cultural center of the most modern political experiment the attempt to establish a jewish national settlement in palestine from many viewpoints tel aviv Is tile the most remarkable city in the old world the rapidity of its development Is astonishing judged by old world standards the town was founded on barren sand band dunes north of the ancient city of jaffa in 1009 and the census of 1013 1913 showed only inhabitants in 1919 there were 2802 inhabitants but today there are more than and the city has outstripped its neighbor jaffa which has existed since biblical times other features of the first modern jewish town are that the ancient lie ile brew language lanei age Is the official and gen brally spoken language it Is inhabited by jews from about 40 different coun tries it was waa the first local authority in the near east whose council was elected by direct voting of the entire population and the first town to grant full womans comans franchise since the famous balfour declaration in which england promised to facilitate cili tate the foundation of a national home for the jewish race in palestine tel aviv has grown by leaps in 1919 the area of the town was about acres today it Is more than 1400 acres to the casual observer the busy streets and boulevards considerably resemble a newly built american boom city the tha streets are thronged thron ged with well dressed people with shiny motor cars mostly of american manufacture and motor busses the traffic policemen are dressed much like the summer uniforms of american policemen the shops are bright and modern the homes are either of the california bungalow type or flat buildings compared with the dirt and squalor of an arab town like jaffa the contrast Is striking although there la Is a physical resemblance to an american town the inhabitants differ from those of any other city to in the world most blast of them have come to palestine in pursuit of an ideal which Is the erection to in the ancient home of the jews of a modern jewish state to constitute the focal point for a cultural revival of tile the jewish race one of the first stages which Is being accomplished here Is the resurrection of 0 the hebrew language as a living force four new national flags flung to brengi Bre breeze egi e geneva switzerland four more national flags have been added to the rainbow of banners which must bu be kept by all governments and warships to be flown on state occasions france carved up the levant into four sovereign states under theman the mandate of the league of nations each has now picked its own flag the republic of lebanon adopted the red white and blue tricolor of france with the addition of a green cedar of lebanon in the middle of the white bond band the state of syria has adopted three green greed white and black horizontal stripes with three i ed five pointed stirs st 11 s on the waite ft bite abanil the flag of the state of formerly the state of Alao ullIes resembles somewhat that of jadan jaan it is a golden sun with 11 ra hayft rising out of the center of a white flag bag in one corner comer Is a tiny french tricolor end and in the other corners are three red triangles the government of jebel aebel druze has perhaps tile the gaudiest gau diest flagin flag in the world with five colors worked into it a difficult cu it composition in the top left corner correr Is a red white and blue meg tangle ae and the remainder Is like the american flag with stripes them a are re live five stripes green red yellow blue and white |
