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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (244204)	10/6/2007 2:04:44 PM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 281500

There is no law against proselytizing either. Really? I read it was illegal is an article, and it sort of surprised me. I guess you can't trust everything you read about Israel :-)

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (244204)	10/8/2007 9:37:20 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The laws are pretty evenhanded on the books as far as I know; the complaints center around the application of the law or the works of the Jewish Agency, a semi-public group that purchases land specifically for Jewish settlement. However, it's not against the law for Jews to sell land to anybody they like, as far as I know. I'm sure if there were any laws we would have heard about them. An amusing response on land ownership. Back in the reality based community, we have this: Israel is the only democratic, advanced-economy country where state or quasi-state agencies own the vast majority of the land area. An estimated 93 percent of the country’s total land area (excluding the occupied areas of the West Bank and Gaza) is owned by the state or by quasi-state agencies. Furthermore, Article 1 of Basic Law: Israel Lands stipulates that: The ownership of Israel lands … shall not be transferred either by sale or in any other manner. jewishvirtuallibrary.org So, then, I guess it's maybe okay to sell the other 7%. Otherwise, it looks like a fairly unique situation.