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Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a non-profit organization. By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception, the JNF says it has planted over 240 million trees in Israel.