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As in other zones of war in Palestine today, there are few more important wartime functions then maintaining and increasing the food supply. As the Jewish men go off to war to join the British forces in defense of the Jewish National Home and other key links in the British Empire chain of defenses, the women are taking their places in the fields as well as in the factories, doing all the hard work as skillfully as their brothers. One of the young women pioneers doing field work in the colony of Ain Hachoresh, one of the 275 Agricultural settlements on June 3, 1941 which constitute the most important Achievement of the 550,000 Jews in Palestine. The women are learning to drive tractors, to manage large cow-stables, to York in the grain fields and to tend the sheep. The Jews of Palestine, 10,000 of whom are in the British forces, have been pleading with the British government for the right to enlist tons of thousands of other Jews to defend the Jewish National Home. (AP Photo)