Published: 9 November 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Netanyahu: it’s up to Israelis to nationalise JNF (Jewish Press)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to his Cabinet ministers on Tuesday regarding the Ministry of Finance’s new version of the JNF appropriation Law, which is being presented to the Knesset Finance Committee.
Battle over Jewish National Fund money pits Likud against Jewish home (Times of Israel)
As ministers advance bill to force JNF to pay much of its earnings to the state, faction leaders squabble over MK who plans to resist his own coalition
Netanyahu demands two billion shekels from Jewish National Fund (World Israel News)
On Tuesday, members of the Knesset approved the legislation, paving the way for the government to force the JNF to place 80 percent of its earnings under direct state control, or risk being disqualified for tax exempt status
STATEMENT BY CEO OF JNF AUSTRALIA, DAN SPRINGER
JNF Australia and KKL are linked together by history, emotion and mission. We share a common narrative that connects us to the 5th Zionist Congress and the establishment of the Jewish National Fund in 1901. Yet, we are a separate, independent entity.
JNF Australia and KKL work together in cooperation to enhance and further our mutual purposes and objectives. Each of us are legally and operationally separate, with our own separate Board of Directors, employees, and donors. No member of the Board of JNF Australia serves on the Board of KKL, and vice versa. Our donors select and designate where their contributions go and the projects and programs to support, which are actively monitored by JNF Australia.
KKL is one of many partners that JNF Australia works with all over Israel, including other not for profits and municipalities, in order to source and implement vital projects. The funds raised by JNF Australia go directly towards these projects, with not one dollar used to fund KKL. In fact on many occasions KKL have added 25% to the funds we have directed to the projects. Recent moves by the Government of Israel to appropriate some of KKL’s revenues will therefore have no impact on JNF Australia or its donors.
