British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Supplement - Page 131

The present membership of the Commission is as follows :Chairman : Rubi Bey Abdulhadi, O.B.E.

Members : Sheikh Tewfik Eff. At Tibi,

Wasfi Eff. Anabtawi.

(p. 906) (§ 71)

The upward revision of the lump sum of £P.30,000 paid annually by the Palestine Government to the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council in lieu of the commuted tithe is at present under consideration in accordance with the provisions of Clause 6 of the 1934 Agreement concluded between Government and the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council.

(§ 74)

The total estimated revenue of the Awqaf Administration from all sources for the calendar year 1946 was £P.134,000.000 mils and the expenditure £P.133,9fJ9.810 mils.

The Awqaf Administration has been reorganised and a new cadre for the Awqaf employees and a scale of salaries has been prepared and adopted by the Supreme Moslem Council in consultation with the Awqaf Commission.

THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION AND THE JEWISH AGENCY.

(p. 907) (§ 78)

Membership of the Zionist Organization is acquired by the annual payment of the Shekel, styled after the Jewish silver coin of biblical times. The following are the figures of the sale of the Shekel in l!H6 in preparation for elections to the World Zionist Congress held at Basie in December, 1946 :-

Country

l. Palestine EUROPE

2. Austria

3. Belgium

4. Bulgaria

5. Czechoslovakia

6. Denmark

7. United Kingdom

8. Finland

9. France

10. Eastern France

No. of Shekalim

S00.754

30,300 9,612 14.050 19,403 900 66,776 850 32,802 3,526

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