Aliyah and Yishuv during World War I

==Coping with the problems==

==Coping with the problems==

[[File:Israeli volunteers British WWI.jpg|thumb|left|Jewish volunteers from Palestine enlisting in the British Army, 1918.]]

[[American Jews|Jewish Americans]] in the United States and even the American government began fundraising and accumulating food which they shipped by boat in order to help the Jewish population in the [[Land of Israel]]. They confronted two major problems. First, they needed an agreement from the president of the United States in sending the aid—this was the first time in which the American government operated a pro-Zionist policy. Second, they needed to receive agreement from the Ottomans that the food and the money would be passed on to the Jewish population. The Ottoman authority agreed to this eventually, in exchange for about 45% of the aid shipment.

[[American Jews|Jewish Americans]] in the United States and even the American government began fundraising and accumulating food which they shipped by boat in order to help the Jewish population in the [[Land of Israel]]. They confronted two major problems. First, they needed an agreement from the president of the United States in sending the aid—this was the first time in which the American government operated a pro-Zionist policy. Second, they needed to receive agreement from the Ottomans that the food and the money would be passed on to the Jewish population. The Ottoman authority agreed to this eventually, in exchange for about 45% of the aid shipment.