The Hovevei Zion in Russia-The Odessa committee 1889-1890

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Draft of the Statutes of the Odessa Committee. From its inception, the Hovevei Zion groups in Russia sought to erect a country-wide legally recognized framework. After arduous negotiations, in which the authorities demanded that the society be set up as a charitable body, its establishment was approved, early in 1890, as “The Society for the Support of Jewish Farmers and Artists in Syria and Palestine” which came to be known as “ The Odessa Committee”. The society is founded solely for charitable purposes, in order to encourage the Jew who have settled in Eretz-Israel to engage in productive labour ( especially agricultural work) (From the archives of the Odessa Committee of the Hovevei Zion / The Druyanov collection)

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