Education
In 1911, he traveled to Switzerland to study law and political economy at the University of Fribourg and University of Lausanne, graduating with a PhD in 1917.
In 1911, he traveled to Switzerland to study law and political economy at the University of Fribourg and University of Lausanne, graduating with a PhD in 1917.
In 1919 he began working for the Jewish National Fund in The Hague, and was relocated to Jerusalem in 1922. Two years later he officially immigrated to Mandate Palestine. He also lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on agrarian policy. In 1940 he was appointed director-general of the JNF.
Granot was a member of the New Aliyah Party and one of the signers of the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948. In 1949, he was elected to the first Knesset as a member of the Progressive Party (the successor of the New Aliyah Party). He was re-elected in 1951, but resigned from the Knesset six weeks after the election. He was head of several public corporations, and sat on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
In 1960, Granot was elected chairman of the JNF Board of Directors.
Land Problems In Palestine. G. Routledge & Sons
Probleme der Bodenpolitik in Palästina
Land taxation in Palestine. Mischar ve-Taasia Publishing Co
Land And The Jewish Reconstruction In Palestine. Mischar ve-Taasia Publishing
Land Settlement And Development In Palestine. Palestine And Near East Economic Magazine, Vol. 6
Land settlement and development in Palestine: Some critical comments on the Report of Sir John Hope Simpson. Mischar ve-Taasia
Bodenbesteuerung in Palästina
The vale of Zebulun: How the Jewish National Fund is opening up a new region in Northern Palestine. Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (Jewish National Fund)
The fiscal system of Palestine. Palestine and Near East Publications (Mishar ve-Taasia Publishing Company)
The Land Issue in Palestine. Palestine Keren Kayemeth Leisrael
Mediniyut karkait Ivrit be-Erets-Yisrael. R. Mas
Land Policy in Palestine. Bloch Publishing Company
The land problem and the future. The Head Office of the Jewish National Fund
Reports and reality. Palestine and Middle East
The land problem in the light of post-war needs Jewish National Fund
Land for the Jewish State Jewish National Fund
Securing land for Israel Jewish National Fund
Our movement and our state Jewish National Fund
BeSade Ha'Binyan
The Land System in Palestine
Netivot ve-Miflasim
Towards the second jubilee. Jewish National Fund
Agrarian reform and the record of Israel. Eyre & Spottiswoode
Dor Tekumah
Israeli politician and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.
Zionist activist
New Aliyah Party , Jerusalem