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ORIGINALITY.
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The Blue
Box For dozens of years, the Blue Box served as a
fund raiser in every Diaspora home and every Jewish institution in Israel and
abroad: A cherished, popular means to realize the Zionist vision of
establishing a state for the Jewish people. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) was established
on December 29, 1901 (9 Tevet 5562) at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel. To
raise funds for it, Haim Kleinman, a bank clerk from Nadvorna, Galicia, soon
placed a box in his office and sent off a letter to Die Welt, the Zionist
newspaper in Vienna, notifying it accordingly:
"In keeping with the saying, 'bit and bitty fill the kitty' and
following the Congress resolution on KKL's founding, I put together an 'Erez
Israel box', stuck the words 'National Fund' on it and placed it in a prominent
spot in my office. The results, given the extent of the experiment so far, have
been astonishing. I suggest that like-minded people, and particularly all
Zionist officials, collect contributions to KKL in this way." The Blue Box: More Than a
Fundraising Device The funds raised through the Blue Box (the
"pushke," as it was widely known) were an instrument to redeeming the
land in Eretz Israel on which the Jewish home was to arise. But the Blue Box
was more than just a fundraising device. From the beginning, it was an
important educational vehicle spreading the Zionist word and forging the bond
between the Jewish People and their ancient homeland. The Blue Box has changed
form many times over the years, and often wasn't even blue. It is a symbol. A
symbol of KKL-JNF and its efforts to develop the land of Israel, plant forests,
create parks, prepare soil for agriculture and settlement, carve out new roads
and build water reservoirs – A symbol of connectedness with the land. For many
people, KKL-JNF's Blue Box is inseparable from their childhood memories. Blue
Boxes were placed in every classroom, into which every Friday small coins were
dropped. For several decades the Blue Box raised funds for environmental goals,
though over time its status whittled away until it disappeared from the Israeli
scene. The Blue Box was reinstated after the Second Lebanon War. Giant Blue
Boxes designed by the finest Israeli artists were exhibited on Tel Aviv's
Rothschild Boulevard where the public was invited to contribute to
rehabilitating Israel's northern forests which had been destroyed in the war.
Isrotel Hotels also took part in the effort with a large donation and awarded a
tree planting certificate to every guest in each of its hotels. The blue charity
collection boxes have been distributed by the JNF almost from its beginning.
Once found in many Jewish homes, the boxes became one of the most familiar
symbols of Zionism. A children's song about the boxes, written by Dr. Yehoshua
Frizman, Headmaster of the Real Gymnasium for Girls in Kovno, ran The box was invented when a bank clerk named
Haim Kleinman in Nadvorna, Galicia placed a blue box labeled "Keren
Le'umit" in his office, and suggested that similar boxes be distributed by
the Fund. The first mass-produced boxes were distributed in 1904. Kleinman
visited Mandate Palestine in the 1930s and planned to make aliyah, but perished
in the Holocaust. Menahem Ussishkin wrote that "The coin the child
contributes or collects for the redemption of the land is not important in
itself; it is not the child that gives to the Keren Kayemeth, but rather the
Fund that gives to the child, a foothold and lofty ideal for all the days of
his life."The boxes could take a variety of shapes and sizes. Some were
paper made to fold flat like envelopes and able to contain only a small number
of coins, some early American boxes were cylindrical, some German boxes were
made of tin stamped into the shape of bound books. Israel issued postage stamps
bearing the image of the blue box in 1983, 1991, and 1993 for the JNF's 90th
anniversary. Jerusalem Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Arabic: القُدسlocated on a plateau
in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, is one of
the oldest cities in the world. It is considered holy to the three major
Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Israelis and Palestinians
both claim Jerusalem as their capital, as Israel maintains its primary
governmental institutions there and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees
it as its seat of power; however, neither claim is widely recognized
internationally.During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice,
besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times. The
oldest part of the city was settled in the 4th millennium BCE. In 1538, walls
were built around Jerusalem under Suleiman the Magnificent. Today those walls
define the Old City, which has been traditionally divided into four
quarters—known since the early 19th century as the Armenian, Christian, Jewish,
and Muslim Quarters. The Old City became a World Heritage site in 1981, and is
on the List of World Heritage in Danger. Modern Jerusalem has grown far beyond
its boundaries.According to the Biblical tradition, King David established the
city as the capital of the united Kingdom of Israel and his son, King Solomon,
commissioned the building of the First Temple. These foundational events,
straddling the dawn of the Ist Millenium BCE, assumed central symbolic
importance for the Jewish People. The sobriquet of holy city (עיר הקודש, transliterated ‘ir haqodesh) was
probably attached to Jerusalem in post-exilic times. The holiness of Jerusalem
in Christianity, conserved in the Septuagint which Christians adopted as their
own authority, was reinforced by the New Testament account of Jesus's
crucifixion there. In Sunni Islam Jerusalem is the third-holiest city, after
Mecca and Medina. In Islamic tradition in 610 CE it
became the first Qibla, the focal point for Muslim prayer (Salah), and Muhammad
made his Night Journey there ten years later, ascending to heaven where he
speaks to God, according to the Quran. As a result, despite having an area of
only 0.9 square kilometres (0.35 sq mi), the Old City is home to many
sites of seminal religious importance, among them the Temple Mount and its
Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dome of the Rock and
al-Aqsa Mosque.Today, the status of Jerusalem remains one of the core issues in
the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, West
Jerusalem was among the areas captured and later annexed by Israel while East
Jerusalem, including the Old City, was captured and later annexed by Jordan.
Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War and
subsequently annexed it. Currently, Israel's Basic Law refers to Jerusalem as
the country's "undivided capital". The international community has
rejected the latter annexation as illegal and treats East Jerusalem as
Palestinian territory occupied by Israe The international community does not
recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and the city hosts no foreign
embassies.According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, 208,000 Palestinians
live in East Jerusalem, which is sought by the Palestinian Authority as the
capital of Palestine.All branches of the Israeli government are located in
Jerusalem, including the Knesset (Israel's parliament), the residences of the
Prime Minister and President, and the Supreme Court. Jerusalem is home to the
Hebrew University and to the Israel Museum with its Shrine of the Book. The
Jerusalem Biblical Zoo has ranked consistently as Israel's top tourist
attraction for Israelis The Jewish National Fund (Hebrew: קרן קימת לישראל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael)
(abbreviated as JNF, and sometimes KKL) was founded in 1901 to buy and develop
land in Ottoman Palestine (later British Mandate for Palestine, and
subsequently Israel and the Palestinian territories) for Jewish settlement. The
JNF is a quasi-governmental, non-profit organization. By 2007, it owned 13% of
the total land in Israel.Since its inception, the JNF has planted over 240
million trees in Israel. It has also built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000
acres (1,000 km) of land and established more than 1,000 parks. EBAY543