Posts Tagged: JNF
Negev Riots: Challenge and Opportunity
JNS.org - The fight that erupted last week over KKL-JNF’s tree planting activities in the Negev offers an element of opportunity. After years of ignoring...
Bedouin Riots Continue for Third Day as Gov’t Considers Plan to Recognize Illegal Towns in Negev
Riots among the Bedouin sector in Israel's southern Negev region continued for a third day on Thursday, amid reports that Jerusalem is considering a comprehensive...
‘The Pride of the Uniform’: Israeli Teens With Special Needs Join Program for IDF Service
For most 16-year-old Israelis, getting their preliminary call-up letter to enlist in the army is a critical step in their career path. But Israeli teens...
The Disingenuous Threat to Boycott the JNF-KKL
The recent threat by some left-wing Jewish groups to boycott the Jewish National Fund -- Keren Kayemet L’Israel (JNF-KKL) -- in Israel strikes a blow...
Anger at JNF for Wanting to Purchase Land Brings Up the British Mandate’s Troubled Past
In 1940, the British rulers of "Palestine" passed the "Land Transfer Regulations." This prohibited Jews from buying land in the vast majority of the British...
An Unfair Attack on the JNF — From an Unlikely Source
The official journal of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has published an article depicting the Jewish National Fund (JNF) as a colonialist exploiter of...
Jewish National Fund Goes West With New President, Marking Historic Shift
JNS.org - The appointment of the new president at the Jewish National Fund (JNF) -- the nonprofit known for its initiatives to develop the land of Israel and enhance...
How the Jewish National Fund Helps Preserve Israel’s Historic Beauty
The media is a very powerful tool when used in the right manner. It can help an organization build support for its cause, fundraise, build membership...
Trees, Tu B’Shvat and the Jewish National Fund
JNS.org - The Midrash teaches that God told man that He created everything for us: “Be careful not to spoil or destroy my world -- for if you...
In Beit Shemesh, American-Israeli Baseball Fans Will Get Their Field of Dreams
JNS.org - On an unseasonably warm Friday in early January, the tune of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” drew more than 100 baseball fans to an...
Israel: A Country at War, Yet Full of Hope
I recently attended a Jewish National Fund (JNF) fundraising breakfast at the Beverly Hilton, along with 1,400 other participants. It was my fourth time at this...
A High School Unlike Any Other
JNS.org - After their bus pulls up next to the park that hugs the Tel Aviv shoreline, the high schoolers stream off and run straight for...
‘This Is Our Moment of Real Zionism’
JNS.org - Russell F. Robinson, CEO of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), believes that Israel has reached an important milestone in its development as a nation. “I...
New York Times Gets it Wrong on Jewish National Fund and Bedouin Arabs
JNS.org - In an op-ed headlined "The Two Israels" (New York Times, March 1, 2015), Nicholas Kristof made a rather broad accusation stating that...
