Development town
Development towns (
The towns were designed to expand the population of the country's peripheral areas while easing pressure on the crowded centre. Most of them were built in the Galilee in the north of Israel, and in the northern Negev desert in the south. In addition to the new towns, Jerusalem was also given development town status in the 1960s.[1]
In the context of the
Background
At the end of 1949 around 90,000 Jews were housed in
Establishment
The first development town was
Many towns gained a new influx of residents during the
Legacy
Despite businesses and industries being eligible for favorable tax treatment and other subsidies, with the exception of Arad, most of the towns (particularly those in the south) have fared poorly in the economic sense, and often feature amongst the poorest Jewish Areas in Israel.[9] In 1984, the Development Towns project was awarded the Israel Prize for its special contribution to society and the State of Israel.[10]
List of development towns
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Galilee and Valleys
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See also
References
- ^ Teddy Kollek and his life-long dedication Jerusalem Post, 2 January 2007
- ^ Yuval Achouch & Yoann Morvan (2012) "The Kibbutz and ”Development Towns” in Israel: Zionist utopias: Ideals ensnared in a tormented history Justice spatiale - Spatial justice
- ^ a b Ma'abarot Israeli Center for Educational Technology
- ^ A. Khazzoom (2005) "Did the Israeli State Engineer Segregation? On the Placement of Jewish Immigrants in Development Towns in the 1950s", Social Forces, vol. 84 no. 1, pp115-134
- ^ a b Erez Tzfadia & Oren Yiftachel (2003) "Between urban and national: Political mobilization among Mizrahim in Israel’s ‘development towns’ Archived 2015-12-11 at the Wayback Machine", Cities, Vol. XX, No. XX, pp1-15
- ^ *Oren Yiftachel & Erez Tzfadian (2004) Between Periphery and ‘Third Space’: Identity of Mizrahim in Israel’s Development Towns Archived 2017-08-21 at the Wayback Machine p208
- ^ We're not Kach, but we love Kahane Haaretz
- ^ Israel's battered economy BBC News, 21 June 2002
- ^ On Location: The deep south Jerusalem Post, 27 December 2007
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1984 (in Hebrew)".