Rawabi
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Rawabi (Arabic روابي, DMG Rawabi, the hills ' ) is an approximately 630 -acre development area in Zone A of the Palestinian Authority of the West Bank.
Planning
The Palestinian businessman Bashar Masri is building nine kilometers north of Ramallah and south of Nablus, near the town of Atara a planned city of 25,000, later up to 40,000 inhabitants. Masri's company Massar holding from Ramallah has entered into with the Palestinian Authority, a Public Private Partnership ( PPP). She wants to accomplish with financial assistance from deposits and loans of Diar Real Estate Investment Company, a subsidiary of fed from oil and gas revenue sovereign wealth fund of Qatar, the project. For the project, a joint subsidiary Bayti was ( German: My house ) was founded. The cost of the total investment amounts to approximately 800 million U.S. $. The project was approved at the Palestine Investment Conference 2008.
The entire planning area is located in Zone A, which is the planning authority lies with the Palestinian Authority. The proposed access road for future residents, however, lies partly in the Israeli-controlled Area C. A permit by the Israeli authorities is not yet available. A preliminary road for construction traffic was approved in January 2012. Without the construction of this road development was questioned. After discussions with the U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East George J. Mitchell in May 2010, the Israeli government had indicated its willingness to also provide the needed for the construction of the main access road country.
Construction work
The first construction work began on 1 January 2010. Firstly, a part of the 25,000 tree seedlings were already on terraced hillsides planted. Furthermore, commenced construction roads and canals for the supply of electricity, gas, water and for the disposal of sewage.
Former U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry visited the site in February 2010, the Special Envoy of the Quartet, Tony Blair in June 2010, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in January 2012.
In March 2010, the U.S. Agency wrote two contracts for further development in Rawabi on Trade and Development ( USTDA ). The first contract will finance technical assistance for the development of information and communication technology (ICT ) in the new city, and the second is to provide funding for a feasibility study ( feasability study) for the construction of a sewage treatment plant for waste water treatment in Rawabi and the communities around the.
A default Masri, to which all participating companies must adhere to is that " not a single produced in Jewish settlements screw" is used for construction. The participation of Israeli companies, however, is desirable and even necessary. In response, the boycott law in the Knesset was adopted in July 2011. This law, which prohibits the boycott of Israel or even the settlements, although relating to non -Masri, but can be for Israeli companies to the problem.
In March 2013, the first of 700 dwellings were completed in the shell, which should be finished by the end of 2013, we will meet every month to be completed and occupied 100 additional housing units.
City council
On June 30, 2013 the City Council held its first meeting under the chairmanship of the Mayor appointed by the Palestinian government Majeed Abd Al- Fatah into Rawabi.