The New York Times · 9 March 1950
CP-1950-007
Israel to Seize Property
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ISRAEL TO SEIZE PROPERTY To Sell Arab Refugees' Holdings to State Development Unit ( special to Tux NEW XoRK TIMIs. JERUSALEM, March 8—Legis- lation enabling the Israeli Govern- ment to obtain legal title to prop- erty abandoned by Arab refugees was passed today by the Knesset (Parliament).
A clause in the ab- sentees property bill empowered the Council for Custody of Absen- tees Property to sell the holdings to the projected State Development 1 Authority. The custodian has powers to lease the properties for five years.
Affected by the legislation are al- most whole cities like Jaffa, Acre, Ramleh, Lydda and the Arab quar- ters of Jerusalem, Halta, Iberias and Safed, scores of Villages and large areas of citrus, olive and 1 fruit orchards, quarries and farm land. The law provides that the buy- 1 ers must pay the custodian's full, official value of the property, - which will be held in tr
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"Israel to Seize Property," The New York Times, 9 March 1950. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1950-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1950-007
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