Dov Shafrir

Dov Shafrir was Israel's first Custodian of Absentees' Property, tasked with cataloguing and redistributing to Jewish residents or immigrants the property of the 700,000 or so Palestinians who had fled or been expelled from their homes in 1948, before and after the state of Israel declared its independence on May 14 that year.^[1]

See also

• Internally displaced Palestinians
• Land and Property Laws in Israel#The 'Absentees Property Law'
• List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestine War

Notes

1. ^ Morris, Benny (2004). The Birth of the Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, p. 467.

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