Last week, The Minister of Construction and Housing, Uri Ariel took a comprehensive tour of the new and upcoming neighborhood in Givat Ze’ev located northward of Jerusalem. The tour was attended by senior members of the Ministry of Construction and Givat Ze’ev neighborhood’s entrepreneurs.

The Minister of Housing interested in the neighborhood and his residents and expressed his impression from the new and advanced progress, and promised to immediately improve the appearance of the neighborhood by allotting developments budgets, and launching thousand housing units to the market immediately. The Minister of Housing Uri Ariel said that he worked hard to solve the shortage of existing housing problem in the Haredi community, and sees the new neighborhood in Givat Ze’ev an important element in solving the problem, with building reserves of hundreds of additional housing units and with an approved master plan beyond the hundreds of existing housing units.

In addition, the minister toured in Ramat Givat Ze’ev neighborhood, a neighborhood designed especially for the Anglo- Saxon community which recently received the Minister approval to build 400 housing units. The Minister expressed his admiration from building Israel’s first dedicated neighborhood to the American community, and includes all the necessary communal institutions for the immigrant population.

The tour was attended by neighborhood’s Rabbis Dayan Rabbi Jacob Farbstein and Rabbi Joseph Goldstein, Mr. Yakkov Rubin one of the project’s entrepreneur and Rabbi Eliyahu Paly CEO of ‘Mishpacha’ who closely accompanied the new residents   in the new neighborhood in Givat Ze’ev.

Nofei Israel’s entrepreneurs who leads the tour, praised the Minister Uri Ariel on his assertiveness for helping the shortage housing existing, and that immediately upon the election came to visit  the neighborhood, in order to meet the needs and help in any way.

The Minister Uri Ariel: “The Haredi public deals with the shortage in housing as well as the rest. Due to the sector’s special needs, the often suffers from it even more than the rest of public. The new neighborhood in Givat Ze’ev is a proper and qualitative solution and I will endeavor to help as much as possible to solve the problems presented to me.”

(YWN – Studio B)