The Jewish National Fund is expected in the coming weeks to publish for the first time a list of some 1,800 unclaimed parcels of land in Israel, most of which are believed to be owned by victims of the Holocaust. Shlomi Kravitz, the head of the JNF, said most of the parcels had been sold prior to World War II to European Jews and are now worth tens of millions of dollars.
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