Factories and industries in Palestine. Factories and industries in Palestine. A worker slides stockings onto display forms. Machinery shaking materials through fabric cylinders into trays in a factory. A worker inspects a new set of dentures. Women work in a telephone exchange. They wear headsets and operate a manual switchboard. Women tending machinery in a fabric factory. Grinding wheels creating flour. Women work on tiny articles at tables in a factory. A paper sorting machine in use.
Palestinians come to listen to orchestra in Palestine. Palestinian men and women enter a room. Poster on the wall reads 'The Palestine Orchestra'. Woman rehearses on a piano. Orchestra leader instructs the woman.
The Bialik Hebrew Day School in Neve Shanan, Palestine. Interior of a classroom. Children seated at desk in the classroom. Teacher writes on the blackboard. Children read and listen to the teacher raising hands. They write in their notebooks. Another teacher teaches a class of senior students. He writes in Hebrew on the blackboard. Students read from the blackboard. Photograph on the wall, of Henrietta Szold (founder of Hadassah, a Jewish women's organization of volunteers that promoted education, public health initiatives, and the training of nurses, among other beneficial programs, in Palestine).
Jewish refugee men and women and children from Europe leaving a Palestine train station for cities in Palestine after World War II. Jewish men and women crowd the platform of a train station. They form a line as officers inspect their papers before boarding. A man on the platform speaks to a woman with children looking from the train window. An old Jewish woman walking on the train platform. Passengers begin to board the train. View of the steam locomotive train before departure. Men taking their luggage and belongings on the platform. A woman says good-bye to a child on the train. Another woman says goodbye to a man. Station officers and civilians from the platform watch the train leave the station.
A newsreel titled 'Martial law in Palestine' shows imposition of Martial law in Jerusalem, Palestine by British mandate authorities. Military tanks roll out on the streets and access to public buildings restricted by barbed wires. Police and soldiers check and search the people on the streets. Curfew imposed in the city.
Young Jewish refugees join the Jewish Brigade in Haifa, Palestine. Banner reads 'Jewish Brigade Group'. Young Jews gather to sign up with the Jewish Brigade. Young Jews enter the Jewish Agency of Tel Aviv. Board reads 'Recruiting Department, The Jewish Agency for Palestine'.