The National Planning Board on Tuesday approved the establishment of a new chareidi community, Kasif, in the Tel Arad area of the Negev in southern Israel.
The new community will encompass 4,750 dunams (1,187.5 acres). The city is planned to host 10,000 housing units, hoping to accommodate at least 50,000 residents.
The new community is being planned to accommodate the needs of chareidi residents.
Israel Nature Preservation Authority officials opposed the plan, which they feel will seriously curtail the availability of green areas due to the need to develop the community, infrastructure including water, sewage, electricity and of course roadways, a project that will result in irreversible damage to the area ecologically.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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And any employment in the area, or is this just a housing project for those who can’t support themselves? If the area doesn’t have roads, water or power – I doubt it has much in terms of jobs.
akuperma, does it bother you that the Jews need more residential space?
How EXACTLY are charaidi needs different than the general population’s needs?
Dear akuperma,
No, it’s just for ‘parasitim’ like me and my friends, people willing to take money from others and commit themselves to Hashem’s holy Torah.
See how far your money gets you after 120…
Boruch hashem we are building frum/chareidi communities in the negev and are not continuing to build chareidi settelments like kiryat sefer and beitar ilit.
Avreich Man, let’s pray that akuperma will be blocked from this website.
#3 – apartment houses are built so that people can reasonably walk up and down stairs on Shabbos, wash rooms are still built separate from toilet, etc.
What is your point ir? Are you trying to label chareidi housing to be on the level of luxury housing in the U.S.?
#5: Get your facts straight. Kiryat Sefer is NOT a settlement. It is built on privately PURCHASED land that NEVER was part of Jordan or any other state. It was no-man’s land until 1967, and privately owned part of E”Y/Palestine before and after. The land was bought from the private Arab owners and paid for in full. In addition, there are hand-signed maps, signed by the late Arafat ym”s, in which he signs that this land will forever be part of Israel and the Arabs relinquish any possible claim of sovereignty over it.
Avreich man remember the term of projection in the Gemorah must apply it to akuperma. It is harder to sit and learn than to earn a living been on both size. When you are learning you never know when to quit for the day.
Kiryat Sefer is NOT a settlement just like EFRAT, GUSH, BEth EL, EMANUEL are not settlements. Eastern JERUSALEM was built on parcel owned by Yidden in Europe and Yemanite community leaders.
BTW none of the so called settlements are built on Arab land particularly the yishuvim in ex Gush Katif.
Zionflag in comment #11 is totally correct.
All that land that Israel has EVER built on or “settled” was Jewish land.
Judea and Sumeria where the Arabs live in ‘their’ setttlements is alos Jewish land that teh Arabs have stolen from the Jews.
No one in America calls Texas “Occupied Mexico” even though America had gone into an “unjustified” (I’m sure at least some Mexicans would call it unjustified) war to take it from Mexico.
As for those sitting and learning being called “parasites” just remember that the antisemites call Isreal a “parasite nation” for taking billions every year from America.
Also There were frum Jews following Torah for many hundreds of years before the seculars came along and built up a state around them against Torah and against their wishes.
This is not to say G-d forbid like the anti Torah Neturai Karta that the state should G-d forbid be dismantled.
It exists and to dismantle it now would be horrifically evil with vastly terrible consequences in the face of som many would just swoop in to do all kinds of horrible things to helpless Jews.
However those who first went againt Torah to build it in the first place, were obviously wrong to do so and those running the country now, are certainly are wrong in oppressing their fellow Jews while constantly giving into their enemies who only use the land as more terrorist bases and places to launch rockets from, as part of their ongoing plan to “push Israel into the Sea” .
I do not agree at all with what akuperma says, but I also would not want to see him/her banned or blocked from this site.
I think it should be open to those who have differing opinions, as long as the posting guidelines are followed.
If they remain here they have the chance to learn why they are wrong and if they never learn they at least cannot go to other more secular blogs and complain that those on the side of Torah
are “robots who never hear the other side, and cannot think for themselves”.