The Jewish National Fund will prepare in the next five years some 130,000 acres of land for settlements throughout the country, a JNF official told the World Zionist Congress settlement committee Sunday. He said the JNF will also prepare hundreds of miles of new roads and build water reservoirs which will contain some 130 million cubic meters of water for use in the new settlements. In the last five years, the JNF has prepared some 50,000 acres of land for new settlements.
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