[1] This sanction enabled the _Hobebe Zion_ societies which were scattered all over the country to group themselves around a legalized center and collect money openly for their purposes.
The Palestinian propaganda gained a new lease of life.

This propaganda, which was intensified in its effect by the emigration panic of the "terrible year," resulted in the formation of a number of societies in Russia with the object of purchasing land in Palestine.

In the beginning of 1891 delegates of these societies suddenly appeared in Palestine _en masse_, and, with the co-operation of a Jaffa representative of the Odessa Palestine Society, began feverishly to buy up the land from the Arabs.

This led to a real estate speculation which artificially raised the price of land.

Moreover, the Turkish Government became alarmed, and forbade the wholesale colonization of Jews from Russia.