A controversy about the funding of farms in Judea-Samaria

(JNS) — Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish National Fund chairman Eyal Ostrinsky is pushing back against an April 28 report in the Haaretz newspaper that his organization is halting funding to agricultural farms in Judea and Samaria based on their geographic location.

Though last month, KKL–JNF’s executive committee passed a motion to halt funding to certain farms, Ostrinsky says the decision was based on each farm’s mission, not its position relative to Israel’s “Green Line” (the 1949 armistice line).

Ostrinsky told JNS that his organization has no problem providing funds to farms in Judea and Sa...