“100,000 Dunams,” a Jewish National Fund poster soliciting donations for the purchase of land in the Land of Israel. Designer: Ze’ev Raban, Land of Israel (Palestine), ca. 1925
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A Jewish National Fund poster soliciting donations for the purchase of land in the Land of Israel. In the background we see the land of Israel from above and two people standing besides the classic metal donation box of the Jewish National Fund.
The Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet LeYisrael) was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land during the Ottoman Rule over then the land of Palestine. The fund is a non-profit organisation and since its establishment has planted over 240 million trees in Israel and owns about 13% of the total land of Israel.
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Dunam or donum was an old Ottoman unit of measurement for land. It is equivilant to the english acre and represents the amount of land a group of oxen could walk in a day. The unit is outdated yet still in use in some areas previously ruled by the Ottomans.
