Quotation from Mordechai Ben Hillel Ha Cohen “There is not in Palestine any other part that can compete with us culturally” — Aug. 8 1935

" We are here in Palestine the more cultured part, and there is not in Palestine any other part that can compete with us culturally. The great majority of the country's residents are fellahs and Bedouin, all of them wild, whom world culture has still not reached. It will be a long while before they learn to live lives in which there is no robbery, thievery, and larceny; lives in which they feel shame and embarrassment at walking around half-naked and barefoot; lives of possessions and property and estab­lished boundaries; lives in which there is a need for level sidewalks and paved roads, organized schools and charitable institutions, courts with­out bribery, and so on. "