Israelis Buying Land in Territories
Despite Official Ban; Dayan Wants
Free Purchases, Eban Cautious
JERUSALEM (JTA) —The
government is studying a
proposal by Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan to permit land
sales transactions between
Jews and Arabs in the ad-
ministered territories.
Dayan made the sugges-
tion last week in a speech
in which he implied criticism
of the government for not
doing enough to further Jew-
ish settlement in the terri-
tories.
It appeared, however, that
Gen. Dayan was not pro-
posing anything new but
rather was asking the gov-
ernment to give its official
blessing to something that is
already taking place on a
fairly large scale.
Experts here estimate that
Israelis have already pur-
chased. more. than. 150,000
dunams (37,500 acres) from
Arabs in the administered
territories.
Despite the fact that they
are officially not permitted
to buy Arab land in the
Judea and Samaria regions,
some 10,000 dunams, nearly
3,000 acres, have been bought
there.
The state comptroller's re-
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port recently cited the Jew-
ish National Fund as the pur-
chaser of 85,000 dunams
(21,250 acres) of land in the
territories. The JNF denied
this.
Government officials ex-
plained that the JNF acted
as an intermediary and that
the land was turned over to
the Israel Lands Authority.
Foreign Minister Abba
Eban said that the govern-
ment, not individuals, must
be the final arbiter in the
purchase of land in the ad-
ministered territories. He
said such activities could
lead to Israel's political and
even military involvement
because it is the duty of a
state to protect its citizens'
property.
Eban told newsmen that he
did not anticipate a cabinet
decision permitting free land
purchases by Israelis in the
territories because a major-
Commending former De-
troiter Sol A. Dann, who now
makes his home in San
Diego, Calif., for his perse-
verance in exposing the mis-
representations in a state-
ment by the Rev. Billy Gra-
ham regarding resort to cru-
cifixion by Jews, Howard
Grief, Montreal scholar who
has delved into the subject,
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the settlers in their denuncia-
tion of the government at a
news conference here.
The settlers said that plans
ito set up a formica factory
at Kiryat Arba employing
2- to 300 workers fell through
when the government refused
to approve it after a year of
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ity of the cabinet shared his
position.
The land purchases by Is-
raelis in the territories has
sparked a sharp increase in
prices. Land in the Jeru-
salem area, where most of
the purchases have taken
place, is currently selling
for between IL 10- and 55,000
($2,500 to $13,750) per du-
nam. Should the government
officially endorse the policy,
the prices will go much
higher, experts say.
According to visitors ar-
riving here from Amman,
the sellers are not only local
Arab landowners but absen-
tee Arab landlords living in
Jordan or in other Arab
countries. Land purchases by
Jews are legal in Jerusalem.
Land near the new Atarot
Airport was sold by its Arab
owner last week for IL
65,000 per dunam.
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