The Israeli occupation government is going to approve next week a plan to build a city and settlement in the southern region of 1948 Occupied Palestine (Negev).
According to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Thursday the city will be built to house ultra-Orthodox Jewish families (Haredim) in Arad area northeast of Beersheba.
The Haredi city will include more than 20000 housing units and accommodate at least 100000 residents. Other projects will be built in the city such as a medical center stores and religious schools.
The construction of this city would start in a few months if the plan received approval from the government according to Yedioth Ahronoth.
As for the settlement it will be built within the area of the Ramat HaNegev regional council which is near the Egyptian border. It will contain thousands of housing units for 2200 families.
Israeli construction and housing minister Zeev Elkin and interior minister Ayelet Shaked will present the plan to their government next Sunday.
Shaked claimed this plan aims to provide homes at low prices and solve the housing problem describing the project as “Zionist and strategic par excellence.”
