[Avodah] Yovel

[Lisa Liel]

I've read in a number of articles that we are approaching the point 
where a majority of Jews live in Israel.  I realize that the numbers 
are skewed both by the problem identifying who is actually Jewish as 
well as the fact that some Jews in Israel live outside of Eretz 
Yisrael (Eilat, for example).  But once a majority of Jews are living 
in Eretz Yisrael, a bunch of legal issues arise.

Yovel is the first.  Once Yovel is noheg again, how do we figure out 
what to do?  It isn't even a matter of when to count from-- it might 
be possible to start counting from when the determination of Yovel 
being back in practice happens, the way someone who is lost in a 
forest and loses track of what day of the week it is starts counting 
from the moment he realizes he's lost track, and keeps Shabbat on the 
7th day.  But the very question of how Yovel is counted is a 
machloket Tannaim, if I'm not mistaken.  Between Rabbi Yehuda and 
Rabbi Meir (correct me if I'm wrong), as to whether the Yovel comes 
between the seventh Shmitta and the first year of the next Shmitta 
cycle, or whether it *is* the first year of the next Shmitta cycle.

Once Yovel is noheg, there are other laws which go back into 
practice.  Eved Ivri.  Arei batei choma.  Shmitta d'Orayta.  Will a 
prozbul even work when Shmitta is d'Orayta?

Does anyone know if these issues are being discussed?  It's not like 
it's going to be very long before they're practical questions.

Lisa