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🌱 George Gawler Encourages Jewish Settlements
George Gawler, previously the governor of South Australia, starts to encourage Jewish settlements in the land of Israel.⟶

George GawlerZionismJewish SettlementPalestine19th CenturySouth AustraliaColonialism


🧑🌾 Founding of British Society for Jewish Agricultural Labour in the Holy Land
James Finn and his wife found the "British Society for the Promotion of Jewish Agricultural Labour in the Holy Land"⟶

ZionismJewish settlementPalestineAgricultural settlement19th centuryBritish support


🏘️ George Gawler Founds Association for Promoting Jewish Settlement in Palestine
George Gawler founds the Association for Promoting Jewish Settlement in Palestine⟶

ZionismJewish settlementPalestine19th centuryGeorge GawlerSettlement movement

🤝 James Finn Proposes Jewish Agricultural Settlement
James Finn, the second British Consul in Jerusalem, writes to Foreign Secretary the Earl of Clarendon regarding his proposal "to persuade Jews in a large body to settle here as agriculturalists on the soil ... in partnership with the Arab peasantry"⟶

ZionismJewish settlementPalestineAgricultural settlement19th centuryBritish supportJames Finn


🧑🌾 Mikveh Israel Agricultural School Established
Mikveh Israel, the first modern Jewish agricultural school and settlement was established in the Land of Israel by Charles Netter of the Alliance Israélite Universelle.⟶

Mikveh IsraelAgricultural SchoolJewish SettlementCharles NetterAlliance Israélite Universelle19th CenturyZionism

🧑🌾 Hovevei Zion Sets Up Farming Communities
The group Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) sets up 30 Jewish farming communities in the Land of Israel.⟶

Hovevei ZionJewish SettlementsLand of IsraelFarming19th CenturyZionism
