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  2. Jewish land purchase in Palestine - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Sursock Purchases - Wikipedia

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    Illustrations of the Sursock Purchase before and after; A) the first map shows the Palestinian villages which were sold (circled in blue) marked on the older 1870s SWP map; B) the second one is a 1925 Palestine Land Development Company map showing the Sursock Purchase lands in yellow, with some of the then-new Jewish settlements.

  4. Israeli land and property laws - Wikipedia

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    In 1939, 10% of the Jewish population of the British Mandate of Palestine lived on JNF land. JNF holdings by the end of the British Mandate period amounted to 936 km². [14] By 1948, the JNF owned 54% of the land held by Jews in the region, [15] or a bit less than 4% of the land in Palestine (excluding Transjordan). [16]

  5. Timeline of intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

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    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]

  6. A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict - explained

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    As a Jewish militia, Hashomer, was established to protect the growing number of settlements, Palestinian pharmacist Najib Nassar set up a newspaper, Al-Karmel, to warn against what he considered ...

  7. Israel to ‘strengthen’ Jewish settlements in West Bank after ...

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    Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said in May that Israel should approve 10,000 settlements in the West Bank, establish a new settlement for every country that recognizes a ...

  8. Jewish National Fund - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Survey of Palestine - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the amount of surveyed land by 1947; the area corresponds closely to the land allotted to the proposed "Jewish State" in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. 1944 maps (1:250,000) from the Survey Department of Palestine