Mikveh Israel
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Image:Mikveh Israel first students.jpg Mikveh Israel (מקוה ישראל; "The Hope of Israel" in Hebrew, a quotation from the Book of Jeremiah (14:8, 17:13)) was the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement established in the Land of Israel in 1870.
Carl Netter (sometimes his name is spelled Charles) of the Alliance Israelite Universelle received the land from the Ottoman Empire as a gift and started an agricultural school that was eventually attended by many of the first Zionist pioneers. Baron Edmond James de Rothschild helped funding the upkeep of the school.
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