The Jewish National Fund today announced acquisition of 2,000 dunams (500 acres) of fertile land in the “free zone” of Yavneh in South Judaea.
The land, in an area where unrestricted Jewish land purchase is permitted under the Palestine land act, is on the site of the famous city where the Sanhedrin (Jewish religious court) under Johanan ben Zakai functioned after Jerusalem’s second destruction.
Purchase of the land was begun 12 years ago through transactions involving two and three dunams at a time. It is planned to establish on the site a talmudic seminary together with an agricultural settlement of Orthodox Jews. The seminary building will be erected from a bequest by Solomon Gots, who died while escaping to Palestine from Russia after the Bolshevik revolution.
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