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JNF Approves $11.7 Million to Expand Settlements by Redeeming Lands | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | David Israel | 3 Adar 5781 – February 15, 2021


Israeli children plant trees in a JNF forest near Modiin (archive).
On Sunday, the KKL-JNF management (a separate entity from the American based JNF-USA) approved a draft resolution that officially changes the organization’s policy and regulates its activity in Judea and Samaria while expanding the purchase of lands for the benefit of the Jewish settlement.
The resolution adopts the legal opinion written for the organization in September 2019 by Judge Yosef Alon, according to which the JNF can purchase land in Judea and Samaria that “is intended for the settlement of Jews.”
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The resolution was passed by a narrow majority of six supporters against five opponents. ....

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