{"id":121831,"date":"2022-06-27T15:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T12:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/?p=121831"},"modified":"2022-06-30T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:06:44","slug":"hoi_cyprus_donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ships packed with refugees make their way to the shores. The authorities do their best to locate and capture the boats before they anchor. The intelligence services collect information about the movement of the illegal immigrants. Coast Guard destroyers try to block the rickety and overloaded vessels. When a boat is captured, the passengers on board are sent to detention camps\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though the above could easily be a description of recent migrant crises in the Mediterranean, it actually refers to the period of Jewish immigration to the Land Israel after the conclusion of World War II and the Holocaust. The British directed considerable resources to counter unauthorized, illegal immigration during this period, an enterprise that the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine worked hard to renew after World War II. The goal was to bring as many Jewish survivors as possible to the Land of Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once a ship had been captured, the passengers on board were sent to detention camps in Cyprus set up by the British. These camps operated from 1946 to the beginning of 1949\u2014that is, they continued to operate even after the establishment of the State of Israel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many Holocaust survivors\u2014men, women and children\u2014found themselves among the detainees in Cyprus. Some had already survived the concentration camps and then lived in DP camps in Europe. These homeless refugees took incredible risks to reach the place that promised to be their homeland, and instead of a refuge, they found themselves once more surrounded by barbed wire fences. The conditions in the camps in Cyprus were not easy and while the British took care to provide basic food and services, both were insufficient.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115226\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL133205175.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115226 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL133205175.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL133205175.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL133205175-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detention camp residents in Cyprus being freed from the camps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/images\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL997008136325405171\/NLI\">photo<\/a> by Benno Rothenberg, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jews already in the Land of Israel did not forget their fellow Jews in the detention camps.\u00a0 After the establishment of the state, the struggle for the release of the detainees intensified, but even before, the Jewish Agency and other pre-state institutions had been working busily on their behalf. Hebrew language instruction was provided, all the underground movements sent representatives to recruit and train the camps\u2019 residents, and in April 1948, an illustrious cultural delegation including poet Nathan Alterman and singer Shoshana Damari visited the camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201cCommittee for the Cyprus Exiles\u201d was the chief body set up by the Jewish Agency, the National Committee, and the JDC, to assist the detainees. The committee mainly collected donations\u2014money, food packages and other items. Packages with the various items were sent regularly through the committee, which also organized deliveries of toys, books, newspapers, and tools. Before the holidays, they would send special foods and other necessities required for the holiday\u2019s observance. The committee organized regular cultural activities in the camps and provided employment for the occupants, as well as many other activities designed to ease the lives of the refugees.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115229\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_POSTER.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115229 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_POSTER.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_POSTER.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_POSTER-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_POSTER-396x600.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;<em>A harsh winter threatens our brethren in the camps \u2013 Bring forth clothing and shoes!&#8221; <\/em>reads this Hebrew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/sheets\/NNL_Ephemera700255728\/NLI\">Poster<\/a> published by the Committee for the Exiles of Cyprus for a &#8220;Winter Clothing&#8221; drive in 1947, the Ephemera Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The committee also organized special fundraising campaigns. One of the largest was Operation \u201cWinter Clothing\u201d, which began in the fall of 1947, immediately after the committee had completed its work for the Jewish High Holy Days. This latest campaign was the third winter fundraising drive the committee had conducted. All the newspapers carried stories on the operation, whose goal was to provide blankets and clothing for about 50,000 refugees in detention camps in Cyprus, the DP camps in Europe, and also for refugees from the Aden riots in Yemen. Women\u2019s organizations and youth movements mobilized for the two-week-long effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of collection depots were set up in the larger cities for citizens to deposit clothes, blankets, food or other items. The announcements in the newspapers called on residents not to wait until the collectors came to their homes but instead to go the collection points with their donations. The Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine, whose own resources were quite limited, rallied to help its fellow Jews imprisoned abroad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115232\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169922682.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169922682.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169922682.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169922682-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The processing center for donations during Operation \u201cWinter Clothing\u201d, 1947. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/images\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL997009857315105171\/NLI\">Photo<\/a>: Benno Rothenberg, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the operation was over, the committee did not rest on its laurels, and immediately began a campaign to supply holiday necessities and matzah for Purim and Pesach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Operation Winter Clothing was one of the largest and most successful of its kind at the time. And not only adults lent a hand, but so did the country\u2019s children. In the photos accompanying this article you can see children bringing clothes to collection points. The local children\u2019s newspapers also addressed the issue. An editorial in one of these newspapers called on its young readers to ponder the question: \u201cAs we prepare our own winter clothes here in <em>Eretz Yisrael<\/em>, we should ask ourselves: Do our brothers and sisters in Cyprus have what to wear?\u201d The same children\u2019s newspapers also regularly reported on children who chose to donate their birthday money to the children of Cyprus: one child donated one Palestine pound or <em>lira<\/em>, another gave three, and another donated 300 mil (1 Palestine pound = 1000 mil). In one case, an entire class collected money for the benefit of the displaced children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115235\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169962047.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115235 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169962047.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169962047.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_0001_FL169962047-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children donating clothing during Operation &#8220;Winter Clothing&#8221;, 1947. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/images\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL997009857316705171\/NLI\">Photo<\/a>: Benno Rothenberg, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115256\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115256 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA-300x70.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;<em>For the Chidren of Cyprus &#8211; Aza Tel-Tsur (of Afikim) donated 300 mil of her pocket money on the occasion of her 9<sup>th<\/sup> birthday<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; Children\u2019s newspapers were filled with announcements about children\u2019s donations for the benefit of the refugees in Cyprus. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/newspapers\/ydv\/1947\/10\/09\/01\/article\/38\/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1\">Davar LeYeladim<\/a><\/em>, October 9, 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_115260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115260\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA-2.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"500\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/500_TRUMA-2-300x68.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;<em>For the Children of Cyprus &#8211; David Tirza (of Motza Elit, on his 11<sup>th<\/sup> birthday \u2013 1 Palestine pound<\/em>&#8220;, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/newspapers\/ydv\/1947\/11\/13\/01\/article\/33\/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1\">Davar LeYeladim<\/a><\/em>, November 13, 1947, from the very days of the clothing drive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The donations continued throughout 1948. The last of the detainees were finally released in the first months of 1949, a full nine months after the establishment of the State of Israel. Their release was only obtained after considerable Israeli efforts \u2013 the British had curiously insisted on holding onto the detainees, almost 4 years after the end of World War II. At last, the story of illegal Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel had come to an end<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All the photographs in this article, and many more documenting Operation Winter Clothing in 1947 were taken by the photojournalist Benno Rothenberg and are now part of the Meitar Collection at the National Library of Israel.\u00a0 Click on the link <a href=\"https:\/\/merhav.nli.org.il\/primo-explore\/search?query=any,contains,%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A3,AND&amp;tab=unified_tab&amp;search_scope=uni&amp;vid=NLI&amp;lang=en_US&amp;mode=advanced&amp;offset=0\">here<\/a> to view them all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1947, Britain was still holding tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. The children of the Yishuv joined in the aid effort, donating their pocket money and clothing so that the displaced children could stay warm in the cold winter months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":115243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1898,1232,1601,1716],"tags2":[2907,2656,2712,2744],"class_list":["post-121831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land-of-israel","tag-british-mandate","tag-history-of-israel","tag-jewish-immigration","tag-world-war-ii"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1947, Britain was still holding tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. The children of the Yishuv joined in the aid effort, donating their pocket money and clothing so that the displaced children could stay warm in the cold winter months.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 1947, Britain was still holding tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. The children of the Yishuv joined in the aid effort, donating their pocket money and clothing so that the displaced children could stay warm in the cold winter months.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Librarians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NationalLibraryIsrael\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-27T12:22:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-30T11:06:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200-628-facebook_2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@NLIsrael\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@NLIsrael\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/893d64394bcb2d03207526bc81327256\"},\"headline\":\"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-27T12:22:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-30T11:06:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/\"},\"wordCount\":1174,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"British Mandate\",\"History of Israel\",\"Jewish Immigration\",\"World War II\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Land of Israel\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/\",\"name\":\"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-27T12:22:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-30T11:06:44+00:00\",\"description\":\"In 1947, Britain was still holding tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. The children of the Yishuv joined in the aid effort, donating their pocket money and clothing so that the displaced children could stay warm in the cold winter months.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg\",\"width\":715,\"height\":537,\"caption\":\"1\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/\",\"name\":\"The Librarians\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd - \u05d1\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2 \u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05d9\u05ea\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Logo.png\",\"width\":103,\"height\":64,\"caption\":\"\u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd - \u05d1\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2 \u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05d9\u05ea\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NationalLibraryIsrael\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/NLIsrael\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/nli_israel\",\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/nliisrael\/\",\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NLI2010\/featured\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/893d64394bcb2d03207526bc81327256\",\"name\":\"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9d4f654a3cd07cff01272ccd86e4cbf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9d4f654a3cd07cff01272ccd86e4cbf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/author\/amitn\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus","description":"In 1947, Britain was still holding tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. The children of the Yishuv joined in the aid effort, donating their pocket money and clothing so that the displaced children could stay warm in the cold winter months.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus","og_description":"In 1947, Britain was still holding tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. The children of the Yishuv joined in the aid effort, donating their pocket money and clothing so that the displaced children could stay warm in the cold winter months.","og_url":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/","og_site_name":"The Librarians","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NationalLibraryIsrael","article_published_time":"2022-06-27T12:22:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-30T11:06:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":628,"url":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1200-628-facebook_2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@NLIsrael","twitter_site":"@NLIsrael","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/"},"author":{"name":"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/893d64394bcb2d03207526bc81327256"},"headline":"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus","datePublished":"2022-06-27T12:22:40+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-30T11:06:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/"},"wordCount":1174,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg","keywords":["British Mandate","History of Israel","Jewish Immigration","World War II"],"articleSection":["Land of Israel"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/","url":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/","name":"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg","datePublished":"2022-06-27T12:22:40+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-30T11:06:44+00:00","description":"In 1947, Britain was still holding tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. The children of the Yishuv joined in the aid effort, donating their pocket money and clothing so that the displaced children could stay warm in the cold winter months.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/715-537-blog_1.jpg","width":715,"height":537,"caption":"1"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/hoi_cyprus_donations\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Donating Pocket Money for Jewish Refugees in Cyprus"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/","name":"The Librarians","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#organization","name":"\u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd - \u05d1\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2 \u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05d9\u05ea","url":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Logo.png","width":103,"height":64,"caption":"\u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd - \u05d1\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2 \u05d4\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05dc\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05d9\u05ea"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NationalLibraryIsrael","https:\/\/x.com\/NLIsrael","https:\/\/instagram.com\/nli_israel","http:\/\/pinterest.com\/nliisrael\/","http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NLI2010\/featured"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/893d64394bcb2d03207526bc81327256","name":"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9d4f654a3cd07cff01272ccd86e4cbf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d9d4f654a3cd07cff01272ccd86e4cbf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"\u05e2\u05de\u05d9\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8"},"url":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/author\/amitn\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121838,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121831\/revisions\/121838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121831"},{"taxonomy":"tags2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags2?post=121831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}