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On 31 December 1944, out of 1,732.63 dunums [citation needed] of land owned in Palestine by large Jewish Corporations and private owners, about 44% was in possession of Jewish National Fund. The table below shows the land ownership of Palestine by large Jewish Corporations (in square kilometres) on 31 December 1945.
These collectively formed the largest Jewish land purchase in Palestine during the period of early Jewish immigration. [1] [2] The Jezreel Valley was considered the most fertile region of Palestine. [3] The Sursock Purchase represented 58% of Jewish land purchases from absentee foreign landlords (as identified in a partial list in a 25 February ...
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 ...
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.
According to Roy Marom, this "purchase was the largest land acquisition operation for Jewish settlement to date." Hankin soon settled in one of Hadera’s satellite estates. [2] He then purchased territories for the Jewish Colonial Association in the Galilee. In 1908, when the Zionist organization sent Arthur Ruppin and set up the Palestine ...
Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the modern State of Israel on May 14, 1948, establishing a safe-haven for Jews fleeing persecution and seeking a national home on land to which ...
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
Amnesty International accused the state of Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza war in a report published on Thursday, an allegation Israeli leaders have repeatedly denied.