The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is reportedly poised to resume buying land in the West Bank after a five-decade hiatus, clearing the way to speed settlement developments amid the threat of US opposition under President Joe Biden.
JNF’s board is expected to approve the new policy on Sunday, according to a report by US media outlet Axios. This would allow for direct involvement in West Bank land deals for the first time since the group stopped making such purchases under pressure from American donors in 1967. Founded in 1901 to buy property for Jews to settle in Ottoman Palestine, the multinational NGO currently owns about 15 percent of all land in present-day Israel.
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