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|description="the UK’s leading humanitarian and environmental Israel charity"
 
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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>
  
 
==Executive Board==
 
==Executive Board==
* Chairman – Samuel Hayek
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* Chairman – [[Samuel Hayek]]
* Honorary Treasurer – Roy Freedman
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* Honorary Treasurer – [[Roy Freedman]]
* Company Secretary – David Berens
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* Company Secretary – [[David Berens]]
* Chief Executive Officer – Yonatan Galon
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* Chief Executive Officer – [[Yonatan Galon]]
  
 
===Executive Board Members===
 
===Executive Board Members===
* Guy Avshalom
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* [[Guy Avshalom]]
* David Berens
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* [[David Berens]]
 
* [[Gideon Falter]]
 
* [[Gideon Falter]]
* Elan Gorji
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* [[Elan Gorji]]
* Rabbi Alan Kimche
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* [[Alan Kimche]]
* Murray Lee
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* [[Murray Lee]]
* Dr Alan Mendoza
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* [[Alan Mendoza]]
* Gary Mond
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* [[Gary Mond]]
* Benjamin Perl MBE
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* [[Benjamin Perl]]
* Mandi Waisman
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* [[Mandi Waisman]]
* Howard Wayne
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* [[Howard Wayne]]
  
 
==Patrons==
 
==Patrons==
* Zak Gertler
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* [[Zak Gertler]]
* Felix Posen
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* [[Felix Posen]]
* Simon Sterling
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* [[Simon Sterling]]
* Sol Zakay
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* [[Sol Zakay]]
  
 
===Honorary Patrons===
 
===Honorary Patrons===
* Professor David Bellamy OBE
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* [[David Bellamy]]
* The Rt Hon [[Tony Blair]]
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* [[Tony Blair]]
* The Rt Hon [[Gordon Brown]]
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* [[Gordon Brown]]
* The Rt Hon Lady Cosgrove CBE
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* [[Hazel Cosgrove]]
 
* General the [[Lord Guthrie]] of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE
 
* General the [[Lord Guthrie]] of Craigiebank GCB LVO OBE
 
* The Rt Hon [[Lord Howard]] QC
 
* The Rt Hon [[Lord Howard]] QC
* The Prime Minister of Israel
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* [[Abraham Levy]]
* The President of Israel
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* [[Ephraim Mirvis]]
* HE The Ambassador of Israel
 
* Rabbi Dr Abraham Levy OBE
 
* Chief Rabbi [[Ephraim Mirvis]]
 
 
* The Marquess of Reading
 
* The Marquess of Reading
* Rabbi Lord [[Jonathan Sacks]]
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* [[Jonathan Sacks]]
* Rev Malcolm Weisman OBE<ref>''[https://www.jnf.co.uk/our-people/ "JNF UK People"]''</ref>
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* [[Malcolm Weisman]]<ref>''[https://www.jnf.co.uk/our-people/ "JNF UK People"]''</ref>
 
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==References==
 
==References==
 
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[[Category:Israel Lobby]]
 

Latest revision as of 07:08, 22 April 2024

Group.png JNF UK
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FormationJuly 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

Executive Board Members

Patrons

Honorary Patrons

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References

  1. 'About JNF UK', JNF UK website, accessed 27 March, 2009.
  2. ILAN PAPPE and JUSTIN PODUR, ZNet, 20 February 2005 Mechanisms of denial, last accessed June 16, 2007.
  3. "JNF UK People"