A total of 5,334 dunams (approximately 1,335 acres) of land in the western part of Emek Esdralon and in Bethsan in the central part of Palestine were today transferred to the Jewish National Fund, Zionist land purchasing agency.
This brings the total of land registered by the Fund since last October to 15,499 dunams.
Two German-Jewish youth settlements are participating in defraying the cost of the most recent purchase.
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