Yesterday, a subcommittee of the National Committee on Principle Planning Matters reportedly voted to recommend the National Committee approve the construction of Kasif, a new haredi city in Israel's Negev Desert near the Tel Arad Junction.
New Haredi City To Be Built In Israel’s Negev Desert
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Yesterday, a subcommittee of the National Committee on Principle Planning Matters reportedly voted to recommend the National Committee approve the construction of Kasif, a new haredi city in Israel's Negev Desert near the Tel Arad Junction, about 20 miles east of Beersheba.
Kasif will have 16,000 housing units and about 100,000 residents, the Israeli business daily Globes reported.
The decision to build a city of some sort in that location was first made in 2007 when the government authorized the Ministry of Construction and Housing, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior, to get approval for the plan from various planning bodies.
In 2010, the National Planning and Building Commission reportedly approved the plan in principle.
Globes reports that a number of environmental and other objections to the plan were filed yesterday and were heard immediately by the committee, which then rejected all of them.
The National Committee will hold hearings for the final approval of the haredi city soon.
Detailed city planning should be completed next year, and lots should be on the market in 2017.