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Palestine(1945) Land ownership by sub-district Map published in 1945 by UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestine Question [1]. In the 1880s, Jews, predominantly Ashkenazi, [2] [3] began purchasing land and properties across Ottoman Palestine in order to expand the collective territorial ownership of the Yishuv.
The Sursock purchase (see red dotted circle) illustrated on a map of Jewish land purchase in Palestine as at 1944; the dark blue represents land then owned by the Jewish National Fund, of which most in the circled area had been acquired under the Sursock Purchase.
Map of Palestine cultivated land ownership by sub-district (1945), in French "Réparatition de la propriété agraire", originally published in the Village Statistics, 1945 Village Statistics, 1945 was a joint survey work prepared by the Government Office of Statistics and the Department of Lands of the British Mandate Government for the Anglo ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
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]
Date: 2 March 2013, 21:17:38: Source: Own work.This file was derived from: Is-map.PNG; Palestine frontier 1922.png; Palestine Index to Villages and Settlements, showing Land in Jewish Possession as at 31.12.44.jpg
In 1882, Jewish immigrants, with financing and technical assistance from abroad, began to purchase land and establish agricultural settlements in the coastal area of the Holy Land. Jewish farmers focused on producing commercial and export crops such as vegetables and citrus. By 1941, Jews owned 24.5 percent of the cultivated land in Palestine.
It played a major role in purchasing land and building Jewish settlement in Palestine and later the State of Israel until the association disbanded in 1957. The Jewish Colonization Association (JCA or ICA) was founded by Bavarian philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch in 1891 to help Jews from Russia and Romania to settle in Argentina.