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All these testified to the great qualities of their host, who besides being a great idealist was also a very practical man too. After the Rabbis, Mr. S. Nissim, chief of the colony of Petah-Tikvah spoke.
A Jew who was one of the first to found the colony of Petah-Tikvah and therefore merited that people in Jerusalem should mark him out as an object of derision and scorn because he was a dreamer a man who built the first house in this Petah-Tikvah who was one of the founders of the "Me'ah Shearim in Jerusalem who constructed perfect roads in Jaffe who founded Zionist Societies in the lands of the Diaspora at a time when Zion did not occupy such a foremost part in the heart of the Jew such a Jew is indeed worthy that a monument of his splendid achievement be erected for him even during his life-time!"
He narrated in a very realistic and eloquent way how that pioneer Zorach Barnett came fifty years ago to build up the ruins of the land and how he bought up the land of Petah-Tikvah, which was now a flourishing colony, but which was then a howling desert wilderness, such as only insane men could ever think of converting this into an habitation of men.