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JNF foots the tab for large delegation to go Poland for March of the Living

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Published: 31 May 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

RAVIV DRUCKER
Senior Israeli defence officials weren’t the only ones marching in the last March of the Living at Auschwitz. The not-so-important trip by a giant delegation from Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund somehow evaded the media’s radar.

Dozens of people, apparently more than 100, flew to Poland for a few days on the organisation’s tab – board members, executives, consultants and advisors.

Why does an agency whose main job is reforestation and land development need to shell out money for such a trip? The answer, as usual with KKL-JNF, is “why not?” After all, money flows like water there.

FULL STORY The JNF’s march of waste and corruption continues (Haaretz)

Photo: Participants in the annual "March of the Living" to commemorate the Holocaust on April 12, 2018 (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)
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