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'''JNF UK''' claims to be "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity...[raising] funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres." <ref>'About JNF UK', [http://www.jnf.co.uk/ JNF UK website], accessed 27 March, 2009.</ref> It is the UK wing of the [[Jewish National Fund]], which has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing".<ref> ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 [http://fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/1494 Mechanisms of denial], last accessed June 16, 2007.</ref> | '''JNF UK''' claims to be "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity...[raising] funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres." <ref>'About JNF UK', [http://www.jnf.co.uk/ JNF UK website], accessed 27 March, 2009.</ref> It is the UK wing of the [[Jewish National Fund]], which has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing".<ref> ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 [http://fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/1494 Mechanisms of denial], last accessed June 16, 2007.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 17:39, 24 June 2021
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| Formation | July 1939 |
| Type | charity |
| "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity" | |
JNF UK claims to be "the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity...[raising] funds for the building blocks of everyday life in Israel such as reservoirs, irrigation systems, desalination plants, forest planting, recycling schemes, roads, housing and healthcare centres." [1] It is the UK wing of the Jewish National Fund, which has been described by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as "a colonialist agency of ethnic cleansing".[2]
Executive Board
- Chairman – Samuel Hayek
- Honorary Treasurer – Roy Freedman
- Company Secretary – David Berens
- Chief Executive Officer – Yonatan Galon
Executive Board Members
- Guy Avshalom
- David Berens
- Gideon Falter
- Elan Gorji
- Rabbi Alan Kimche
- Murray Lee
- Dr Alan Mendoza
- Gary Mond
- Benjamin Perl MBE
- Mandi Waisman
- Howard Wayne
Patrons
- Zak Gertler
- Felix Posen
- Simon Sterling
- Sol Zakay
Honorary Patrons
- Professor David Bellamy OBE
- The Rt Hon Tony Blair
- The Rt Hon Gordon Brown
- The Rt Hon Lady Cosgrove CBE
- General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE
- The Rt Hon Lord Howard QC
- The Prime Minister of Israel
- The President of Israel
- HE The Ambassador of Israel
- Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy OBE
- Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
- The Marquess of Reading
- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
- Rev Malcolm Weisman OBE[3]
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.
References
- ↑ 'About JNF UK', JNF UK website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
- ↑ ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 Mechanisms of denial, last accessed June 16, 2007.
- ↑ "JNF UK People"
