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Hagar Shezaf reports in Haaretz on 1 October 2023: The Jewish National Fund invested 4 million shekels (about $1 million) over the last two years in a project designed for youths dropping out of school who live in shepherd’s farm outposts in the West Bank. The money, intended for professional training for youths, was transferred […]

The Mapping Project October 31, 2022 On November 4-6 2022, some of the most notorious colonizers of Palestine will gather in Boston, Massachusetts. The occasion is the 2022 national conference of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). The JNF is a zionist organization which since its founding in 1901 has facilitated the theft of Palestinian lands and the […]

Hagar Shezaf reports in Haaretz on 4 August 2022: The board of the Jewish National Fund in Israel voted on Thursday [4 August] to allocate 61 million shekels ($18 million) for the purchase of Palestinian-owned land in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. It is part of a larger transaction that the Israeli Defense […]

Michael Hauser Tov, Josh Breiner, Deiaa Haj Yahia, Jack Khoury and Anshel Pfeffer report in Haaretz on  12 January 2022: The Israeli government said on Wednesday that future work by the Jewish National Fund in the Negev will be negotiated by coalition partners, in a bid to ease tensions after days of violent clashes over […]

Hagar Shezaf and Nir Hasson write in Haaretz on 5 August  2021: A new initiative by the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) on registration of properties beyond the Green Line could lead to the eviction of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. JNF’s board of directors is set to […]

Yaara Benger Alaluf writes in +972: Along with its iconic fundraising box, known as the “Blue Box,” one of the enduring symbols of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) is a 1930s children’s song by the Russian-born Jewish poet Yehoshua Friedman, titled “An Acre Here and an Acre There”: Let me tell you this my girl, […]

Hagar Shezaf, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Judy Maltz report in Haaretz on  7 April 2021: The management of the Jewish National Fund will vote Sunday on the controversial proposal that would allow it to buy land in the West Bank, even in areas of remote Jewish settlements. In February the JNF approved a policy change […]

Lily Galili reports in Middle East Eye: Days before he made his long-awaited first call to Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden will have had to acquaint himself with the latest issue driving a wedge between Israel and his nascent Democratic administration – not to mention the American Jewish diaspora. The Jewish National Fund, known in Hebrew […]

Allison Kaplan Sommer reports in Haaretz on 15 February 2021: Warning bells are being sounded by world Jewry that a decision to formalize purchase of West Bank land to expand settlements by the Jewish National Fund will not only damage Israel’s international diplomatic relations but could also hurt its fundraising efforts to an extent that […]

Tamara Nassar writes in Electronic Intifida 15 February 2021 Israel’s Jewish National Fund is reportedly planning to purchase privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank to expand Jewish-only settlements. The organization’s leadership approved the proposal on Sunday, which was reported in Israeli media days earlier. The board of directors is expected to make […]