Yosef Weitz (1890-1972) directed the Jewish National Fund’s Land and Afforestation Department. He acquired land for Jewish settlement and advocated population transfer of Arabs, earning the nickname “Architect of Transfer.”
Yes. On 5 June 1948 he presented Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion with the three-page memorandum “Retroactive Transfer: A Scheme for the Solution of the Arab Question in the State of Israel,” signed by Weitz, Ezra Danin and Elias Sasson. It proposed preventing Arab refugee returns, destroying abandoned villages, and resettling Jews in their place to consolidate the new state’s demographics.
Documented in Israeli archives and detailed by historian Benny Morris in “Yosef Weitz and the Transfer Committees, 1948-49.”