Yosef Weitz
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title:
Yosef Weitz
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Yosef Weitz was the director of the Land and Afforestation Department of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). From the 1930s, Weitz played a major role in acquiring land for the Yishuv, the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine. In 1932, when Weitz joined the JNF, there were only 91,000 Jews in Palestine who owned just 2% of the land. Weitz oversaw the program to purchase properties from absentee landlords and run the Palestinian tenant farmers off their land. However it soon became clear that the
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Israeli civil servant
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Weitz
date created:
2006-09-23T07:25:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T14:14:17Z
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