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offices were established there. In 1949 he was elected to Israel’s first parliament and served
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as Chair of the finance committee.” © At mid-century, he was also world chairman of the
205 “¢: : . . .
Granott was a prolific researcher and writer, and his publications on
Jewish National Fund.
land-tenure, taxation, and agriculture in Palestine/Israel span from the 1920s to his death in
1962. Perhaps his best-known work is The Land System in Palestine (1952). This foundational
work is, as Charles Smith recently noted, “still a very important source used by students of
the land issue.”7"°
Ottoman 1909 agricultural statistics state that there were then in the Jerusalem gada
(district) belonging to the Jerusalem sancak (province), a population of 50,000 males and
70,000 females. It states that 3,000 hanes in the district were employed in agriculture, and
that 160,000 dunams in the district were planted with grains (hububat). Of the 3,000 hanes,
it was recorded that 2,000 farmed between 10-50 dunams of field-crop land (tarla) and
1,000 farmed more than 50 dunams. On the basis of this data alone it was calculated in the
statistical register that in the Jerusalem province, which covered the entire southern half of
Palestine at the time, 67 percent of farmlands was plots of more than fifty dunams in size,
and 33 percent of the agricultural land was plots of 10-50 dunams in size. No holdings
204 Theodore Hatalgui, “Granott (Granovsky), Abraham”, in Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, eds.
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., vol. 8 (Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007), 33. Gale Virtual Reference
Library, accessed 29 July 2015.
205 Jewish Telegraph Agency online archives: jta.org/1949/02/27/archive/dr-abraham-granovsky-world-
head-of-jewish-national-fund-arrives-in-new-york . Accessed 10 July 2015.
208 Charles Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (7th ed, 2010): p.152, note 31.
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