The Jewish National Fund directorate has approved an IL 745 million budget for the coming fiscal year. It contains IL 536.5 million from the land development agency’s own resources and the balance provided by other organizations, JNF director general Shimon Ben Shemesh said at a press conference here. He said that some 15 percent of the JNF’s overseas fund-raising receipts comes from the traditional “blue boxes” into which Jewish children and others drop their modest contributions.
JNF chairman Moshe Rivlin said the agency would concentrate on development work in Galilee and the Negev next year. It will prepare some 31,000 dunams of land for new settlements with the objective of doubling Galilee’s Jewish population. The JNF will operate on 262 sites throughout the country and in the occupied territories, Rivlin said, an increase of 37 percent over last year. He said there were only 21 JNF emissaries presently on overseas assignments.
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