New Effort To Settle Galilee, Negev

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: August 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

UJC to consider $200 million emergency campaign to combat rising Arab population.

Fearing that within the next 20 years Israeli Arabs will outnumber Israeli Jews in the Galilee and the Negev, the board of the United Jewish Communities will be asked to approve a $200 million emergency program over five years to settle 300,000 Jews in both regions in the next decade.

The board is slated to consider the request at its meetings in November in Israel. The $200 million is part of the $1.25 billion the project is expected to cost. Among the other contributors are the government of Israel, the Jewish ...

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