British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 1077

Appendix 'C' (contd.).
Yishuv (H.)

"General Council", i.e. of the Jewish Community, elected from the Asefat tianivharim (q.v.).

- "Watercourse"; "velley".

-- "Women's International Zionist Organisation".

- "Yiddish": from German "judisch"; originally a mixed German-Hebrew jargon written in Hebrew letters, brought by Jews from Rhineland. Still used by some Ashkenazi Jews.

- The whole Jewish population in Palestine - literally "people who have come and settled down". Contrast Knesset Israel.

-- Land census from which entries in the Turkish Tapu books were originally made. (Literally "roll-call" or "absence").

- "Day of Atonement".

Va'ad Leumi (H.)

Wadi (Ar.) W.I.Z.O. Yiddish

Yoklarna (Turkish)

Yorn Kippur (H.)

MEASUREMENTS.

RAINFALL.

25 millimetres 50

100

200

500

1,000

1 inch.

2 inches. 4 inches. 8 inches. 20 inches.

40 inches.

SQUARE MEASURES (LAND).

Old Turkish dunum = 919.3 square metres.

(There is a 'new' Turkish dunum, never used in Palestine, of 2,500 square metres).

The dunum used in Palestine is a metric dunum of 1,000 square metres (about 1 acre).

10 metres x 10 metres= 100 sq. metres. 100 sq. mecrcs e t are.

IO ares=l dunum=t acre.

100 ares e becte.re e to dunums=2~ acres (approx.).

10,000 ares = 100 hectares = l.000 dunums = 1 square kilometre = 250 acres (approx.).

(The small squares on the I.100.000 maps of Paleat.ine contain 1,000 dunums each and the large squares contain 100,000 dunums).

10 dunums (1 hectare)=2.471 acres.

1 dunum = .2471 acre.

4 dunums= .9888 acre.

4.047 dunums=l acre, say, 4 dunuma an acre. Square mile =2590 Dunums.

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