Construction and Housing Minister Yaakov LItzman has scrapped a plan to construct a new charedi city in the northern Negev, Calcalist reported.
The new city, Kasif, would have been built along Route 31, north of the Bedouin town of Kuseife and west of Arad.
Senior government officials told Calcalist that charedim, and especially Litzman, did not see Kasif as an appropriate solution for the sector’s housing crisis, since it is too far away from other municipal centers. Instead, the Construction and Housing Ministry is increasing the resources allocated for the development of a new charedi city west of Kiryat Gat, on land which currently belongs to the Shafir Regional Council.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
{Matzav.com}
