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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestine(1945) Land ownership by sub-district Map published in 1945 by UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestine Question In the 1880s, Jews, predominantly Ashkenazi, began purchasing land and properties across Ottoman Syria in order to expand the collective territorial ownership of the Yishuv. Large ...
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 1946 memorandum submitted by the Arab Higher Committee to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry). [4]
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]
Jews remained second-class citizens of the Ottoman Empire until its collapse in World War I. [7] This changed when, due to Jewish immigration and land purchase in the late 19th century, they realised that Zionism wanted to make a Jewish state in Palestine. Both Palestinian Christians and Muslims were worried.
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.
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]
(The Center Square) — Jewish leaders are calling for a boycott of Maine's biggest city over a vote by the city council to pull financial investments tied to Israel over the war in Gaza. In a ...
The Arab Higher Committee opposed the idea of a Jewish state [4] and called for an independent state of Palestine, "with protection of all legitimate Jewish and other minority rights and safeguarding of reasonable British interests". [5] They also demanded cessation of all Jewish immigration and land purchase. [4]