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While the information provided in the article is important, the article is also totally biased as the organization and its many functions, especially in foresting, are not truly discssued. gidonb 03:02, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Feel free to provide more information; so far this page does not look biased to me, so I've removed the NPOV warning; can't leave something up for six months without action on it... --Martin Wisse 01:11, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Request: More on reforestation 2 JNF charter does not explicitly prohibit leasing to non-Jews 3 NPOV 4 Holdings in the end of the Mandate 5 Note on dunams

[edit] Request: More on reforestation

Could someone provide further information on the sucesses of reforestation attributed to the KKL? Also, it would be splendid if comparisons with similar tree planting programs elsewhere (Central Asia, Iceland, Rapa Nui, Cape Verde Islands) could be provided. //Big Adamsky 21:46, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

In an effort to offer a more rounded picture of the political role of the JNF in Israel I've added a line with a typical Palestinian point of view and some analysis of the JNF's role as a key element in the modern Israeli state including weblinks to supporting evidence from the JNF's own website. --Tom Godwin 13:59, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] JNF charter does not explicitly prohibit leasing to non-Jews

It merely specifies that the purpose of the JNF is to purchase land for the settlement of Jews. Not the same thing at all. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.68.95.65 (talk) 18:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] NPOV

The whole Early History section is not written in an encyclopaedic manner which makes it sound very POV. Might be fixed simply by someone who knows about it rewriting the section. [[Guest9999 10:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC)]]

You are quite right. In January the article was turned into a JNF promotional pamphlet by a single-purpose account and until now nobody has tried to fix it. I have now replaced a lot of the new text with previous text. There is still some of the new material present (basically the last two sections). That material should be covered, but rewording to not sound like an advertisement would be a good idea. --Zero^talk 12:43, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Holdings in the end of the Mandate

According to [1], JNF had only 800 km² in 1949, with another 120 km² transferred later from PJCA. Could the 936 km² figure be the combination of these two figures?--Doron 11:26, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Here are Lehn's sources: "On May 14, 1948, the JNF held 936,000 dunums; Efraim Orni, Agrarian Reform and Social Progress in Israel (Jerusalem, 1972), p. 62. A. Granott, Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956), p. 28, gives total Jewish ownership at the end of 1947 as 1,734,000 dunums; of this 933,000 were held by the JNF and the balance by other, including private, owners." Granott was the chairman of the JNF at that time. Also Lehn gives year-by-year totals from JNF sources, which pass 800 km² already in 1945. Otherwise, I dunno ;-). --Zero^talk 11:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Note on dunams

During the Ottoman and early British period, a "dunam" meant a Turkish dunam of 919.3 square meters (0.227 acres). In Feb 1928, The British abolished it in favor of the metric dunam of 1000 square meters (0.247 acres). Quite a lot of sources convert early land areas incorrectly due to this confusion. --Zero^talk 12:31, 29 May 2007 (UTC)