ABSTRACT
The immigration of Jews to Palestine and their purchase of land was an inseparable political element of the mandate. During the ’20s about 80,000 Jews entered Palestine as permanent residents. Immigration amounted to 11,300 in 1932, the last year of the Weimar Republic; and the number of Jews increased three times in comparison with 1918, that is, to 200,000, constituting about 20 per cent of the population. Jewish landownership doubled in the same period, but it embraced only about 4 per cent of the total land area.
