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before, so to speak, on the land that was purchased. But this way too began to gradually narrow: regulations were established, one after another, which severely restricted land transactions, under the pretext of protecting the interests of the Arab fellahin. As for the "government lands," concentrated in the center, the government sold them almost entirely to Arabs: the cultivated government lands were received by the Arabs in their entirety - 97.8 percent, /458,091 dunams,/ and the Jews 0.4 percent, /1,980 dunams;/ of the inferior lands, the government gave the Arabs 34.6 percent, /102,000 dunams, and to the Jews 5.2 percent, /15,428 dunams;/ and of the lands not fit for cultivation, nothing was given to the Arabs, and the Jews received 54,625 dunams, /33.9 percent. In Transjordan, there is a ban on the sale of land to Jews and on Jewish settlement in general.

Regarding protective tariffs, the government did not even want to hear about them for a long time: first of all, it "did not believe" in the effect of the entry tariff /and it continues to view it this way even now/, first of all, from the perspective of the benefit it brings to the government treasury; the more goods are brought in from abroad, the higher the government treasury's revenues rise. Therefore, for a long time they did not bother to protect it - not only did they not raise the customs duty on those goods imported from abroad, for which factories already existed in the country, but even worse than that: they also did not succeed in obtaining a reduction that would lower the duty on machinery, on raw materials, and for a certain period - even on irrigation pipes, /and in that period when production in Eretz-Israel was halted/, only at the cost of countless efforts and after many important factories were forced to close - did the first signs of a more serious attitude on the part of the government towards the young industry begin to appear, slowly and with great difficulty; but even now, the situation of the Eretz-Israeli industry is not at all satisfactory in this regard. And the author says more than this: I claim that no young industry would have arisen and developed among us, had it not had the push of a protectorate government, which exempts it from customs duties, etc., etc. Indeed, not one of the great industrial countries would have arisen, had it not acted this way in its early stages.

I cannot restrain myself, I must tell of one case, which is very characteristic of this ignorant attitude towards industry. It happened in the year 1927, at the beginning of the summer. The founding