By Elisha Efrat
Written in a transparent and easy-to-follow kind, this revealing text examines the modern political geography of the West financial institution and Gaza strip. Descriptive in nature, it records the alterations and advancements seeing that 1967 correct as much as the disengagement from Gaza. The publication is supplemented by way of a variety of maps and covers matters together with demography, Jewish settlements, water and typical assets, delivery infrastructure, making plans, partition plans for Jerusalem, cost coverage and the Separation Fence. one of many first books to take on this contentious topic from a geographical instead of a political or old perspective, The West financial institution and Gaza Strip will be of big curiosity to either undergraduate and graduate scholars learning the Israel-Palestine query.
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The Ministry also contributes to the development costs by means of a grant covering up to 50 per cent of expenses, according to the classification of the community and type of expense. The National Infrastructure Ministry through Israel Land Administration provides very high discounts from the value of the land in the payment of lease fees for residential construction, and a great discount on leasehold fees for industrial and tourism purposes. The Ministry of Education provides a range of incentives for teachers who work in priority areas, including promotion, participation in rental costs and travel expenses, and reimbursement of 75 per cent of tuition fees paid by teachers at institutions of higher education.
The remaining towns are located as bridge points pointing towards the neighboring regions: Jericho towards Transjordan, Jenin towards the Valley of Yesreel, and Tulkarm towards the Sharon Plain. These few examples are enough to indicate that the towns of Judea and Samaria responded in different ways to the region’s severance from its natural outlets and surroundings, each according to its specific regional functions and geographic conditions. It may, moreover, be noted that they were all affected by the exogenous economic factor of emigration to the Arab oil principalities, despite sporadic urban growth.
Its underlying principles were maximum spread of settlements; transfer of resources from the Coastal Plain to the hills; the establishment of a company to invest in industrial enterprise; rapid development of profitable projects; and State seizure of land whose ownership was unclear. By 1977 Gush Emunim had already set up 12 settlements in the hills, comprising together some 500 acres (2,000 dunams) of land. Each settlement consisted of a few inhabitants, employed outside the area and commuting to Jerusalem or the Coastal Plain; many settlers held on to their former dwellings as well.
