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Al Blake of Becket is the recipient of the 2022 Alan Silverstein and Laura Dubester Award for Community Environmental Leadership from the Center for EcoTechnology.

From the blog of Yaakov Menken at The Times of Israel

Get email notification for articles from Allison Kaplan Sommer Follow Apr. 21, 2021 3:35 PM An intensive lobbying campaign is underway in the United States to convince board members of the Jewish National Fund in Israel to block the authorization of land purchases in the West Bank. A vote by the organization’s Israel-based board of directors, scheduled for Thursday, April 22, will determine if the organization will make a historic pivot by beginning to purchase West Bank land for the purpose of expanding and developing existing Israeli settlements. JNF, an organization founded in 1901 to a...

Photo Credit: JewishPress.com A view of Yatir Forest from Moshav Yatir, April 2021. Yatir Forest was planted and developed with contributions from friends of KKl-JNF around the world; it is Israel’s largest planted forest. Jewish organizations in the United States are banding together in a campaign to block members of Keren Kayemet L’Israel / Jewish National Fund from carrying out a plan to buy land in Judea and Samaria to expand and develop existing Israeli communities. The board of KKL-JNF, the Israeli arm of the Diaspora-based Jewish National Fund, is scheduled to vote Thursday ...