Mitchell G. Bard and Moshe Schwartz, 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know about Israel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) p4 "Within a short time the JNF, known worldwide for the little blue-and-white coin boxes that still grace Jewish homes," historians would write later, "was not only buying land but draining swamps, rehabilitating river beds, cutting new roads, planting forests, creating picnic areas and parks, and making desert soil fertile," and over the next 100 years, it would own 17% of the land in Israel (including 500000 acres of forests) and plant 200 million trees.