Baron Edmond de Rothschild

In 1883 Baron Edmond de Rothschild founded a Jewish settlement adjoining ʿAqir, which he named Mazkeret Batya (Hebrew: “Memorial [to] Batya”), in honour of his mother; the name Ekron (now officially Qiryat ʿEqron) was subsequently given to an adjoining new immigrants’ settlement, established in 1949. However, the…

In 1894 the French-Jewish banker Baron Edmond de Rothschild bought a large tract of land for Jewish settlement in the Golan; he was followed by other groups in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Jewish colonization was attempted but was frustrated by the hostility of the Arab population and by…

…subsidized by the French philanthropist Edmond, baron de Rothschild, rose from 19 in 1900 to 47 in 1918, even though the majority of the Jews were town dwellers. The population of Palestine, predominantly agricultural, was about 690,000 in 1914 (535,000 Muslims; 70,000 Christians, most of whom were Arabs; and 85,000…

…were assisted (after 1898) by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the financier and philanthropist. His experts found the area suitable for viticulture, and extensive vineyards were planted. There, and at Zikhron Yaʿaqov (in the north, near Haifa), Rothschild built some of the world’s largest wine cellars, whose ownership and production are…