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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 Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, subsequently Israel and ...
The JNF has repeatably been criticized by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel [35] and the Palestine Museum of Natural History, [36] for its extensive use of non-native plants, implementing afforestation in ecologically inappropriate areas, and aggressive planting practices, which has led to increased disease among trees, forest ...
The forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). This article is a list of these forests. In the 19th century and up to World War I, the Ottoman Empire cleared the land of Israel of its natural reserves of pine and oak trees, in order to build railways across the ...
The Jewish National Fund, from Jewish Villages in Israel, 1949: Of the entire area of the State of Israel only about 300,000-400,000 dunums – apart from the desolate rocky area of the southern Negev, at present quite unfit for cultivation – are State Domain which the Israeli Government took over from the Mandatory regime.
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 ...
In 2021, The Jewish National Fund conducted a poll and with a 33% majority from the Israeli people, the olive tree was chosen as the new national tree of Israel. [112] [113] [114] Its branches are depicted on the Emblem of the State of Israel and the insignia of the Israel Defence Forces (Incl. The Military Rabbinate). [115]
Jewish National Fund, Sept. 11, Facebook post U.S. Army, Sept. 11, 2023, Italians and American pause to remember 9/11 Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Sept. 8, 2021, A special memorial tree
In the early 20th century, the Jewish National Fund devoted the day to planting eucalyptus trees to stop the plague of malaria in the Hula Valley; [23] today the Fund schedules major tree-planting events in large forests every Tu BiShvat. [16] Over a million Israelis take part in the Jewish National Fund's Tu BiShvat tree-planting activities. [24]