As Virginia Tilley explains, the WZO and JAFI are key matrices in the “political grid” of settlement in the occupied territories.36 She views the juridical separation of the two agencies to be “largely a legal fiction”, noting that both institutions have a settlement division and share executives, staffs, and possibly even revenue streams.37 While she acknowledges one key jurisdictional difference, JAFI operates within Israel while the WZO is tasked
with the occupied territories (Elazar described WZO activities “political” as opposed to the “philanthropic” or “civic” mission of the Jewish Agency38), she considered this: