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Sustainable economic growth requires societies to create the conditions that enable people to have quality jobs.
| KKL-JNF supports educational initiatives and agricultural development in Israel's periphery, among its projects to promote employment opportunities and economic growth. |
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Employs non-academics from all sectors of the population, who are given the opportunity to acquire higher education and vocational training: ~30% of employees |
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Enables employees without higher education to pursue an academic degree or profession: an average 40 per year |
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Built infrastructure for research center buildings and laboratories: 5 (R&D Central Arava (Hatzeva), Kinneret College, Hula Valley, R&D Southern Arava Renewable Energy Research Center, Eilat Center for Arid & Semi-Arid Agricultural Research) |
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Prepares land for agriculture: ~100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) in ~1,000 communities, providing decent livelihoods for farmers in the periphery |
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Prepared land for olive groves: ~1,756 hectares;4,391 ac, providing livelihoods for farmers (~294 ha;735 ac, northern region; ~1,421 ha; 3,552 ac, central region; ~42 ha;105 ac, southern region) |
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Constructs and runs the KKL-JNF Heritage Centers, a unique informal educational project, providing youth in the periphery with opportunities for academic and social development. Currently, 2 active facilities (Nof HaGalil and Kiryat Malakhi) and 8 planned (Sderot, Ofakim Beit She'an, Kiryat Shmona, Tzfat, Akko, Be'er Sheva and Migdal HaEmek) |
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Promotes game -changing projects that serve as economic growth engines, particularly in the periphery, such as the Hula Lake Park, the Arava Vidor Center and the Birding Center in Eilat |
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| * * The data contained herein is from the field and authoritative KKL-JNF sources. With that, KKL-JNF's ever-evolving projects and activities are difficult to specifically quantify. |
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