Plans for the acquisition of some 250,000 acres of land in Israel by the Jewish National Fund to meet the extensive needs of the great numbers of immigrants currently entering the Jewish state have been completed ,Dr. Abraham Granovsky, world chairman of the J.U.F., announced here today just before leaving by plane for Holland and Switzerland, en route to Israel.
Dr. Granovsky, who will negotiate with financiers in those countries, declared that the full and speedy implementation of these plans depends on the availability of American financial support. “Our program for 1949 is to double the national land holdings of the Jewish people in Israel by acquiring the second million ?unams of land (250,000 acres), which is an essential prerequisite to the founding of 2OO new agricultural settlements planned for this year in Israel,” he stated.
Lauding Judge Morris Rothenberg, president of the J.N.F. of America and acting chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, for his “devoted leadership,” Dr. Gran-?vsky added: “In saying Shalom to my friends I would like them to always remember that the five tasks of the Keren Kayemeth–land acquisition, reclamation, development of water resources, reforestation and participation in the cost of settlement–are the cornerstones upon which the future and progress of Israel rests.”
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