1. A translation of the Hebrew phrase “Ge'ulat Ha-Q_arqa,” commonly used in Zionist literature to describe the purchase of the land.
2. This is according to a former director of the Keren Kayemet, A. Granott, in his Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956), p. 28. 1 dunum = 1,000 square metres.
3. Israel Government Yearbook, 5719 (1958), p. 234.
4. Ibid.