Forty thousand dunams of land have been purchased by the Jewish National Fund in the Plain of Jesreel, in the vicinity of the Jewish settlements there.
The total land estate of the Jewish National Fund amounts to 150,000 dunams. Of these, 117,000 are in the Valley of Jesreel.
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