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Jewish rabbis receiving the title deed for lands that they purchased from the Arab landowner in Mandatory Palestine, 1920s. The Ottoman Land Code of 1858 "brought about the appropriation by the influential and rich families of Beirut, Damascus, and to a lesser extent Jerusalem and Jaffa and other sub-district capitals, of vast tracts of land in ...
The Jewish Colonisation Association is currently negotiating with a Greek family (Soursouk is the name, I think) for the purchase of 97 villages in Palestine. These Greeks live in Paris, have gambled away their money, and wish to sell their real estate (3 % of the entire area of Palestine, according to Bambus) for 7 million francs.
The Sursock Purchase: The Jewish Colonisation Association makes its first major purchase in the north of Palestine in an acquisition of 31,500 dunums (acres) of land near Tiberias from the Sursock family. This will go on to become one of the largest land purchases for the purposes of colonisation within Palestine. [2]
In the war that followed, some 700,000 Palestinians, half the Arab population of what was British-ruled Palestine, fled o Explainer-Israel-Palestinian dispute hinges on statehood, land, Jerusalem ...
Golden Book signed by Theodor Herzl and Johann Kremenetzky. In the Jewish Museum of Switzerland's collection.. The Jewish National Fund (JNF; Hebrew: קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael; previously הפאנד הלאומי , Ha Fund HaLeumi) is a non-profit organization [2] [3] founded in 1901 to buy land and encourage Jewish resettlement in ...
Within three years, about 10,000 dunums, an old land measurement equivalent to acres, had been acquired in the Marj Bin Amer region of northern Palestine, forcing out 60,000 local farmers to ...
The main Jewish areas depopulated in 1948 were the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion. Approximately 30-40km 2 of land was owned by Jews in the areas which became the West Bank and Gaza Strip (approximately 6,000km 2); some of this land was uninhabited. [43] In areas that became the West Bank
Jewish community leaders in Washington held a pro-Israel rally near the White House on Friday, 13 Octover. Protestors marched after Hamas militants invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip.