 "The One Thousand Settlements" is a name of a settlement plan, adopted by the Jewish Agency at its meeting in London, March 1930. It was a part of a comprehensive plan of settlement in the fruit growing region, initiated in 1927.
The idea was first brought up by Levi Shkolnik (Eshkol) in the "Hapoel Ha'tsair" convention in 1926. Shkolnik, returning from a tour of Greece, was impressed by the settlement project of the huge numbers of deportees from Turkey. His proposal, that by the way was never materialized, was with regard to a low-cost settlement of the workers from the Colonies in the Zevulun Valley. This name was later assigned to the plan of settling the Colonies' workers in the Citrus Region.. A plan that was initiated by the "Agricultural Center".
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