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By HERBERT FREEDEN tending the JNF principles of
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inalienability of the soil and
CHARLIE ROBINSON'S
JERUSALEM — The role its use in terms of hereditary
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of the Jewish National Fund leaseholdership to almost all
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in the national renaissance is public land holdings in Israel.
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one of historic dimensions. A This arrangement constitutes
pioneering generation settled the finest vindication of JNF
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on JNF holdings in areas work during seven decades.
which seemed forlorn. on soil
By 1947, the JNF had ac-
which seemed uncultivable. quired 1.089,000 dunams
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The JNF helped them not (272,250 acres), much at high
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only to occupy the land. but prices — and 87 per cent of
to ameliorate it and improve all Jewish settlements were
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it. The fund's land policy was on JNF land. After 1948, the
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amply vindicated: in Novem- JNF turned its efforts to vast
ber 1947 the United Nations land reclamation projects to
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drew the' boundaries of the clear the way for the re-
proposed Jewish state almost settlement of the hundreds
entirely in accordance with of thousands of immigrants
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the land holdings of the Jew- pouring in. The fund was
I GLOBE PARCEL 1 ish National Fund. In the allotted the exclusive task of
War of Independence, settle- "conquering" the wastes —
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i ments on land, bought by the no small undertaking. The
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JNF in strategic areas, area of cultivated land was
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helped to stop the invaders. 4,500,000 dunams, out of a
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With establishment of the total of 22,000,000 dunams.
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State, a new era in land de-
The first step in develop-
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velopment opened. The ac- ing new regions is the con-
cent shifted from land pur- struction of a road, demar-
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chased to land reclamation, cating for the first time the
Cusiomers and Friends
from the redemption of the border, which till then was
soil to "making the desert a hunting ground for infiltra-
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bloom."
tors and marauders. Verit-
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The Keren Kayemet is the able feat s_ of engineering
exclusive agent for all land were accomplished in road
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development tasks in the building. The road to Adamit
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country. In 1960, a law was crossing the Tiger Canyon,
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adopted by the Knesset ex- the road to Biranit along the
Lebanese frontier, the road
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to Mount Gilboa of Biblical
Friends and Patrons
fame, the road to lonely Mei
Ami; the highway from Arad
to the Dead Sea; roads built
by the JNF to make the fron-
tiers of Israel safer, from the
north to the south — the road
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along the River Jordan, the
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link between Adullam and
Etzion; and the mountain
road up mighty Hermon.
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Some 540 new settlements
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were set up between 1948-71.
twice the number •in exist-
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established. To speed up set-
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tlement, even before the nec-
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soil for new villages was
available, the Keren Kaye-
met devised in the first years
of statehood a new, transitory
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form of settlement, the "work
village" whose inhabitants,
in the initial years, based
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their livelihood on their work
as hired laborers of the Jew-
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ish National Fund. The fund
guaranteed them the number
of annual workdays neces-
sary for the upkeep of their
families.
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The second phase began
in the middle '50s with the
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idea of rural settlement on
a regional scale, the Lakhish
Region becoming the proto-
type. The Hula swamps were
drained in a huge and com-
plicated operation which took
eight years and brought 100,-
000 dunams (25,000 acres) un-
der cultivation — by now the
finest soil in the country. The
Jewish National Fund took
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the initiative for the devel-
opnYont of particularly dif-
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and Yatir regions still fur-
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ther south, or the smaller
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projects for the Modi'im
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lel to regional settlement
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planning. It is characterized
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been set up on border sites
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because of their strategic im-
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portance. The settlers are
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m a 1 e and female soldiers
who give part of their service
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in the form of work in land
development a n d farming.
The JNF in these. cases has
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taken upon itself not only the
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reclamation of the soil and
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the building of access roads,
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but also the construction of
all the installations needed
in the initial period.
Althogther, the Keren Kaye-
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met has emerged as an im-
portant factor on the labor
market. The number of work-
days provided in land reclam-
ation and afforestation pro-
grams rose from 60,000 in
1948-49 to 295,000 in 1949-50
and '715,000 in 1951-52 and
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then settled down to 500,000
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annually.
By 1975, contemplated pro-
jects would extend land prep-
aration to an additional 137,-
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000 dunams of agricultural
acreage; and the planting of
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12,000,000 trees, with invest-
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ments totaling IL 258,000,000
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(864,500,000).
Some 55 per cent of con-
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templated development will
be carried out in settlements
which came into being after
the 1967 war. These projects
will call for an investment of
IL 164,000,000 in land reclam-
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ation, drainage and road
building and will be carried
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out in nine regions with the
bulk of the expenditure going
to land improvement for ag-
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riculture: in the Jordan Val-
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ley, 46,000 tlunams; in the
Golan Heights, 36,000 dun-
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ams; and in the Arava, 14,000
dunams.
The afforestation allocation
for the next four years of
IL 94,000,000 — in addition to
new forests — will bring the
total of trees planted to
120,000,000 by the end of 1975.
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In the 25 years of state-
hood, JNF land holdings grew
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from 936,000 dunams (231,-
000 acres) to 2,520,000 dun-
ams (641,000); 450,000 dunams
of land were reclaimed and
another 200,000 dunams won
by drainage operations; some
2.600 kilometers of roads
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were built and over 100,000,000
trees planted.
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