All lands owned by the State of Israel and the Jewish National Fund will henceforth be administered jointly by a single “land authority, ” it was announced here today by the Cabinet committee composed of the Ministers in charge of economic affairs.
The decision followed lengthy negotiations with the JNF and is based on full agreement regarding the Fund’s future tasks. Within the new authority, the JNF will retain full owner ship of its funds and will continue to be charged with land reclamation and afforestation work. It is understood that the government intends to submit to Parliament a bill making it impossible, except in a few specific cases, to sell government-owned lands.
(Dr. Harris A. Levine, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, commenting on the announcement, said: “I am confident that when the negotiations are ended and the plan is finalized it will greatly strengthen the relations between the Jewish National Fund in Israel and the Government of Israel and the Zionist movement, and render the much needed reclamation and afforestation work of the JNF even much more effective than it is today.”
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