Three new neighborhoods will be dedicated tomorrow in three different communities in the Jordan Valley. Housing Minister Natan Sharansky will be on hand to inaugurate a new neighborhood in Kibbutz Beit HaAravah, north of the Dead Sea. North of Jericho, in Yeitav, the new \"Mul Nevo\" (meaning \"opposite Mt. Nevo,\" (Moses\' burial place) will be launched. Further north, a permanent neighborhood will gain official status in Hemdat, the site of a religious-communal community and a pre-military yeshiva academy of 65 students.
The Yesha Council announced that the population in the communities of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza officially increased in the past year by 17,000, to a total of 227,000. Arutz-7\'s Kobi Sela, who participated in a press conference called by the Council today, said that the actual increase is closer to 20,000, as many of the 3,000 who are counted as having left intend to return. The Council announced that 16 new families have moved to Har Brachah (just south of Shechem in central Shomron), 180 to a new neighborhood in Adam (between Jerusalem and Psagot), close to 20 into the Gaza communities of Kfar Darom, Netzarim, and Morag, and 28 into Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion. In addition, Beit El will gain at least 43 new families; four families have left Beit El to live in a more \"difficult\" Yesha location, Ateret, on the road to N\'vei Tzuf.
The Yesha Council announced that the population in the communities of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza officially increased in the past year by 17,000, to a total of 227,000. Arutz-7\'s Kobi Sela, who participated in a press conference called by the Council today, said that the actual increase is closer to 20,000, as many of the 3,000 who are counted as having left intend to return. The Council announced that 16 new families have moved to Har Brachah (just south of Shechem in central Shomron), 180 to a new neighborhood in Adam (between Jerusalem and Psagot), close to 20 into the Gaza communities of Kfar Darom, Netzarim, and Morag, and 28 into Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion. In addition, Beit El will gain at least 43 new families; four families have left Beit El to live in a more \"difficult\" Yesha location, Ateret, on the road to N\'vei Tzuf.