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Wikipedia: The Jewish Agency for Israel (Hebrew: הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל, HaSochnut HaYehudit L'Eretz Yisra'el), also known as the Sochnut or JAFI, served as the pre-state Jewish authority before the establishment of Israel and later became the mandated organization in charge of immigration and absorption of Jews from the Diaspora. The Zionist Organisation (ZO) founded the Palestine Bureau (also known as "Eretz Yisrael Office") in Jaffa in 1908, under Arthur Ruppin, and began to adopt a systematic colonisation policy in Palestine. Following the promulgation of the pro-Zionist, Balfour Declaration of 1917, Chaim Weizmann, president of the British Zionist Federation formed the Zionist Commission in March 1918 to go to Palestine and make recommendations to the British government.
![[Maabara with New Immigrants, 1950.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Maabara1950_s.jpg "Maabara with New Immigrants, 1950.")
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![[Alan Hoffman, Jewish Agency Director General.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/AlanHoffman_s.jpg "Alan Hoffman, Jewish Agency Director General.")
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![[Natan Sharansky and Richard Pearlstone, Jewish Agency Board of Governors meeting, 2009]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Natan_Sharansky_and_Richie_Pearlsone_at_BOG_s.jpg "Natan Sharansky and Richard Pearlstone, Jewish Agency Board of Governors meeting, 2009")
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