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by the Keren Kayemeth (Jewish National Fund) and are affiliated with the Histadruth (General Federation of Jewish Labour).

THE JEWISH NATIONAL Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael - see paragraph 88 of chapter XXII).

168. The Jewish National Fund was established in 1901 and by the end of 1918 had purchased some 16 ,000 dunums of land on which five settlements had been established. It was not until after the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that the Fund found the means of raising larger sums which enabled it thereafter to acquire considerable areas year by year. By 1944 these areas aggregated 750,000 dunums by purchase and 8,100 dunums by concessions or long term leases from the Palestine Government.

169. The object of the Jewish National Fund is to acquire land to be held in perpetuity as the inalienable property of the Jewish people and to lease it for agriculture and urban development.

Table 4.

P.I.C.A. and I
Year J.N.F. PICA and private individuals Total

Dunums Dunums Dunums
1882 25,000 25,000
1890 - 107,100 107,100
1900 - 220,700 220,700
1914 16.400 404,200 420,600
1922 72,400 521,GOO 594,000
1927 196,700 706,300 903,000
1932 296,900 761,600 1,058,500
1936 369,800 1,022,800 1,392,600
1939 I 463,500 1,069,900 1,533,400'
1941 532,900 1,071,900 1,604,800
1944 758,200 973,100 1,731,300
170. The total area acquired by Jews by purchase is 1,556,700 dunums; concessions from the Palestine Government amount to a further 174,600 dunums, making the total of 1,731,300 dunums given in table 4. This total area of Jewish land represents 6.6% of the total area of Palestine. The area under actual cultivation has been quoted (see table 3) as 716,750 dunums and the remaining area of approximately 1,000,000 dunums is used or reserved for a variety of purposes, agricultural or otherwise.

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