Yosef Weitz

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Yosef Weitz (1890-1972) was the director of Jewish National Fund´s Land Department, who from the 1930´s was responsible for land acquisition (mostly from Arabs) for the Yishuv. He was instrumental in establishing the "Transfer Committees".

The Transfer Committee report of November 1948 denied any Israeli culpability or responsibility for the Arab exodus, in fact, it even denied (according to Morris, p.157) "its own members role in various areas and contexts."

His diaries were published in an edited form by Weitz in 1965. The original diaries are placed at the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem.

[edit] Reference:

• Benny Morris: 1948 and after; Israel and the Palestinians, 1994, chapter 4: Yosef Weitz and the Transfer Committees, 1948-1949.