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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 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]
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.
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 ...
Palestinian land laws dictate how Palestinians are to handle their ownership of land under the Palestinian National Authority—currently only in the West Bank (see governance of the Gaza Strip). Most notably, these laws prohibit Palestinians from selling any Palestinian-owned lands to "any man or judicial body corporation of Israeli ...
Some Palestinians have disputed prior Jewish ownership and have produced Ottoman-era land titles for part of the land. [22] An Israeli court has stated that the document of Jewish ownership was authentic and the Arab documents forged. [23] [better source needed] Jews in Nahalat Shimon on their way to the Tomb of Simeon the Just, 1927
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 ...