"One a Day": What's Happening at KKL-JNF
An investigation by "The Inspector" reveals a grim picture of KKL-JNF: a powerful and well-established workers' committee, controversial appointments, and particularly generous housing benefits. The veteran national body, which manages assets worth more than 15 billion shekels, has become entangled in politics and turned into a system serving other interests, lacking government oversight.
An investigation by "The Inspector" by Yossi Mizrahi, published this week, reveals a grim picture of KKL-JNF, the veteran national body associated with tree planting and land redemption. The investigation presents a completely different organization: a powerful and well-established workers' committee, controversial appointments, and particularly generous housing benefits. KKL-JNF, which manages assets worth more than 15 billion shekels, is a dual-nature body not supervised like a government entity. In this intermediate domain, a system of connections exists between a strong workers' committee, which receives a welfare budget of about 7 million shekels per year, and political factors: from appointments of cronies to pressure on employees to register for the Likud party. The central question arising from the investigation is: as long as everyone (except the public) benefits, who would actually want to change the situation?