Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - Jewish National Fund

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The Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael - Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) was founded at the Fifth Zionist Congress in 1901 to purchase land for the Jewish people in Palestine.[1]

In 1961, the KKL-JNF and the Israeli government signed a covenant which provided in part:

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael shall continue to operate, as an independent agency of the World Zionist Organization, among the Jewish public in Israel and the Diaspora, raising funds for the redemption of land from desolation and conducting informational and Zionist-Israel educational activities; and the Government shall extend assistance to Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael in informational and propaganda activities in Israel and abroad.[2]

"Over the past 107 years", it claims to have "evolved into a global environmental leader by planting 240 million trees, building over 200 reservoirs and dams, developing over 250,000 acres of land, creating more than 1,000 parks, providing the infrastructure for over 1,000 communities, bringing life to the Negev Desert and educating students around the word about Israel and the environment." [3]

It has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing" [4]

Affiliations

The KKL-JNF has a number of national affiliates around the world including: JNF Australia | KKL-JNF Austria | KKL Belgium | JNF Canada | KKL-JNF Czech Republic | KKL Denmark | KKL-JNF Finland | KKL-France | KKL-JNF Germany | JNF Holland | JNF Ireland | KKL-JNF Israel | KKL Italy | KKL-JNF in Latin American Countries | JNF Norway | JNF Scotland | KKL-JNF Spain | KKL Sweden | KKL Switzerland | JNF UK | JNF USA.[5]


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People

KKL-JNF Board of Directors Leadership (2012-14)

Board of Directors - 2014

Mr. Yoav Andy | Mr. Ben Zion Azachi | Ms. Ora Baharaff | Mr. Yehoshua Chazan | Mr. Nisan Cialic | Mr. Yitzchak Danino | Att. Micha Drori | Mr. Victor Dubin | Mr. Avraham Duvdevani | Mr. Moshe Dabush | Mr. Itzik Elia | Ms. Yehudith Elimelech | Mr. Eli Eyal | Mr. Nachi Eyal | Mr. Hernan Felman | Mr. Arnon Giladi | Ms. Carol Golding | Ms. Barbara Goldstein | Dr. Orr Karassin | Mr. Chaim Katz | Mr. Shamai Keinan | Mr. Ofer Lichtig | Mr. Zeev Noyman | Mr. Mike Nitzan | Mr. Nehemia Reibi | Mr. Yair Reinman | Mr. Roi Sharabi | Mr. Matityahu Sperber | Prof. Alon Tal | Mr. Shlomi Vayzer | Mr. Tzvi Vershbiak | Mr. Oliver Worth | Mr. Moshe Yogev | Ms. Leslie Zachs | Mr. Yehezkel Zakai[6]

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Notes

  1. ↑ First Decade: 1901-1910, KKL-JNF, accessed 9 August 2012.
  2. ↑ KKL-JNF - Israeli Government Covenant, KKL-JNF, accessed 9 August 2012.
  3. ↑ 'About JNF', JNF website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
  4. ↑ ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR ZNet, 20 February 2005 Mechanisms of denial Last accessed 16 June, 2007.
  5. ↑ JNF JNF Offices Worldwide, Accessed 16 February 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 JNF KKL-JNF Board of Directors, accessed 16 February 2014.