The Ministerial Committee on Development in the Negev and Galilee approved funding for seven development projects to strengthen the peripheral areas of the country.
New dormitories to be constructed for some 700 students at Sapir College in Sderot will be fortified against Kassam rocket attacks at a cost of approximately 80 million shekels.
Some 20 educational and settlement groups in the Negev and Galilee will also receive funding for expansion of their activities.
One project, budgeted at some NIS 10.5 million, will allocate 30 construction sites in Negev communities such as Mitzpe Ramon, Yeruham and the new community of Merhav Am, to be sold for NIS 50,000 ($11,600) each. The development costs will be subsidized by the state.
The government will also subsidize development costs for 45 plots and several public buildings in Be’er Milka, another new Negev community, at a cost of NIS 8 million.
The new village of Al Manar will be built for non-Jewish disabled citizens in the Galilee and is expected to provide 140 jobs for its residents. The government will fund 35% of the project, which is expected to cost a total of NIS 56 million.
It was also decided that the committee would advocate the development of a new international research center to be located in Kibbutz Sde Boker, the home of Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion. The Negev center will focus its research on water technology.
New dormitories to be constructed for some 700 students at Sapir College in Sderot will be fortified against Kassam rocket attacks at a cost of approximately 80 million shekels.
Some 20 educational and settlement groups in the Negev and Galilee will also receive funding for expansion of their activities.
One project, budgeted at some NIS 10.5 million, will allocate 30 construction sites in Negev communities such as Mitzpe Ramon, Yeruham and the new community of Merhav Am, to be sold for NIS 50,000 ($11,600) each. The development costs will be subsidized by the state.
The government will also subsidize development costs for 45 plots and several public buildings in Be’er Milka, another new Negev community, at a cost of NIS 8 million.
The new village of Al Manar will be built for non-Jewish disabled citizens in the Galilee and is expected to provide 140 jobs for its residents. The government will fund 35% of the project, which is expected to cost a total of NIS 56 million.
It was also decided that the committee would advocate the development of a new international research center to be located in Kibbutz Sde Boker, the home of Israel’s founding father, David Ben-Gurion. The Negev center will focus its research on water technology.