1940 Israel PALESTINE Jewish KKL-JNF Tzedaka TIN BLUE BOX Israel AQABA Judaica

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1940 Israel PALESTINE Jewish KKL-JNF Tzedaka TIN BLUE BOX Israel AQABA Judaica:
$235.00

DESCRIPOTION : Here for sale is an EXCELLENT Zionist memmoraboiliacollectible find. It an EXTREMELY RARE ,over SIXTY YEARS OLD EretzISRAEL- PALESTINE calate 1940\'s JNF - KKL charity - Donation-Tzedaka box for LAND redemption in Eretz Israel . The BOX was manufactured andwas in use in ENGLAND - GREAT BRITAIN before the establishment of theINDEPENDENT STATE of ISRAEL and before its 1948 WAR of INDEPENDENCE . ( AQABAis indicated where ELATH was later on indicated in the independent ISRAEL STATEperiod ) .( Reference - Box No.26-27 page No.7 in the KKLBlue Box catalogue- Please watch scan for reference ).With aslot and a round hole for rolled money bills on its upper face and a trap dooron its bottom face . A RARE Zionist collectible BEAUTY. Never seenthis type of box before. Trap dooris tightly locked. No key . Unusualsize ( Width ) : 5\" x 4\" x 2.25 \" . Very good condition. The surface is in very goodshape, Firm, Vivid and glossy . No dents or scratches . Somewhat rusted upperface .( Pls watch the scan for a reliable actual AS IS image ) . Will beshipped in a special rigid protective package . AUTHENTICITY : ThisisanORIGINALvintage 1940\'s Eretz Israel Palestine BOX . NOT a recent immitation ,It holds a life long GUARANTEE forits AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.PAYMENTS : Payment method accepted : Paypal.SHIPPMENT : SHIPP worldwide via expedited insured trackable registered airmailis$19 . Will be shipped in a special rigid protective box. Handling within 3-5 days after payment. Estimated duration 10 days.

The BlueBox For dozens of years, the Blue Box served as afund raiser in every Diaspora home and every Jewish institution in Israel andabroad: A cherished, popular means to realize the Zionist vision ofestablishing a state for the Jewish people. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) was establishedon December 29, 1901 (9 Tevet 5562) at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel. Toraise funds for it, Haim Kleinman, a bank clerk from Nadvorna, Galicia, soonplaced a box in his office and sent off a letter to Die Welt, the Zionistnewspaper in Vienna, notifying it accordingly:\"In keeping with the saying, \'bit and bitty fill the kitty\' andfollowing the Congress resolution on KKL\'s founding, I put together an \'ErezIsrael box\', stuck the words \'National Fund\' on it and placed it in a prominentspot in my office. The results, given the extent of the experiment so far, havebeen astonishing. I suggest that like-minded people, and particularly allZionist officials, collect contributions to KKL in this way.\" The Blue Box: More Than aFundraising Device The funds raised through the Blue Box (the\"pushke,\" as it was widely known) were an instrument to redeeming theland in Eretz Israel on which the Jewish home was to arise. But the Blue Boxwas more than just a fundraising device. From the beginning, it was animportant educational vehicle spreading the Zionist word and forging the bondbetween the Jewish People and their ancient homeland. The Blue Box has changedform many times over the years, and often wasn\'t even blue. It is a symbol. Asymbol 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 roadsand build water reservoirs – A symbol of connectedness with the land. For manypeople, KKL-JNF\'s Blue Box is inseparable from their childhood memories. BlueBoxes were placed in every classroom, into which every Friday small coins weredropped. For several decades the Blue Box raised funds for Environmental goals,though over time its status whittled away until it disappeared from the Israeliscene. The Blue Box was reinstated after the Second Lebanon War. Giant BlueBoxes designed by the finest Israeli artists were exhibited on Tel Aviv\'sRothschild Boulevard where the public was invited to contribute torehabilitating 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 atree planting certificate to every guest in each of its hotels. The blue charitycollection boxes have been distributed by the JNF almost from its beginning.Once found in many Jewish homes, the boxes became one of the most familiarsymbols of Zionism. A children\'s song about the boxes, written by Dr. YehoshuaFrizman, Headmaster of the Real Gymnasium for Girls in Kovno, ran The box was invented when a bank clerk namedHaim Kleinman in Nadvorna, Galicia placed a blue box labeled \"KerenLe\'umit\" in his office, and suggested that similar boxes be distributed bythe Fund. The first mass-produced boxes were distributed in 1904. Kleinmanvisited Mandate Palestine in the 1930s and planned to make aliyah, but perishedin the Holocaust. Menahem Ussishkin wrote that \"The coin the childcontributes or collects for the redemption of the land is not important initself; it is not the child that gives to the Keren Kayemeth, but rather theFund that gives to the child, a foothold and lofty ideal for all the days ofhis life.\"The boxes could take a variety of shapes and sizes. Some werepaper made to fold flat like envelopes and able to contain only a small numberof coins, some early American boxes were cylindrical, some German boxes weremade of tin stamped into the shape of bound books. Israel issued postage stampsbearing the image of the blue box in 1983, 1991, and 1993 for the JNF\'s 90thanniversary.The JewishNational Fund (Hebrew: קרן קימת לישראל,Keren Kayemet LeYisrael) (abbreviated as JNF, and sometimes KKL) wasfounded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine (later BritishMandate for Palestine, and subsequently Israel and the Palestinian territories)for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a quasi-governmental, non-profitorganization. By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel.Since itsinception, the JNF has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has alsobuilt 180 dams and reservoirs, developed 250,000 acres (1,000km)of land and established more than 1,000 parks. Israel officially the State of Israel(Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל‎,Medīnat Yisrā\'el, Arabic: دولة إِسرائيل‎ is a parliamentary democracy in the MiddleEast, on the south-Eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanonin the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east,Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Seato the south, and it contains geographically diverse features within itsrelatively small area. In its Basic Laws Israel defines itself as a Jewish andDemocratic State; it is the world\'s only Jewish-majority state.On 29 November1947, the United Nations General Assembly recommended the adoption andimplementation of the partition plan of Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948,David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization andpresident of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared \"the establishmentof a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel,\" astate independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15May 1948.Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on the next day and foughtthe Israeli forces. Israel has since fought several wars with neighboring Arabstates, in the course of which it has occupied the West Bank, Sinai Peninsula(between 1967 and 1982), Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. It annexed portionsof these territories, including East Jerusalem, but the border with the WestBank is disputed. Israel has signed peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, butefforts to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have so far not resulted inpeace. Israel\'s financial center is Tel Aviv, while Jerusalem is the country\'smost populous city and its capital (although not recognized internationally assuch). The population of Israel, as defined by the Israel Central Bureau ofStatistics, was estimated in 2013 to be 8,002,300people, of whom6,030,100 are Jewish. Arabs form the country\'s second-largest ethnic group with1,653,900 people (including Druze and Bedouins). The great majority of IsraeliArabs are settled-Muslims, with smaller but significant numbers of semi-settledNegev Bedouins and Christians. Other minorities include various ethnic andethno-religious denominations such as Druze, Maronites, Samaritans, BlackHebrew Israelites, Armenians, Circassians and others. Israel is arepresentative democracy with a parliamentary system, proportionalrepresentation and universal suffrage. The Prime Minister serves as head ofgovernment and the Knesset serves as Israel\'s unicameral legislative body.Israel has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. It is a developedcountry, an OECD member, and its economy, based on the nominal gross domesticproduct, was the 43rd-largest in the world in 2012. Israel has the higheststandard of living in the Middle East and the third highest in Asia.