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May 01, 1992 - Image 12

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1992-05-01

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Hard Sell

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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1992

relatively .few immigrants (a
mere 1 percent) have been
attracted to settle over the
Green Line. A lack of ap-
propriate jobs or steady in-
comes also makes the
newcomers less willing to
take on mortgage payments
and able to scrape together
down payments. The irony is
that the rising rate of
unemployment, which has
passed the 11 percent mark
and is running far higher
among the immigrants,
makes this a particularly in-
opportune time to be selling
real estate. Yet that logic
has little bearing on Israel's
complex political reality.
Exactly what's up for sale
is difficult to say, for just
they have been ever since
the start of the construction
juggernaut, statistics are
hard to come by, and wildly
divergent when you do get
them.
An official government
agency has finally published
the number of recent
building starts in the ter-
ritories. In 1991, according
to the Central Bureau of
Statistics, they amounted to
8,110 units — over four
times the number of starts
(1,810) in the previous year.
Peace Now (which has a
special Watch Group on
building starts) claims that
work has begun on another
1,330 units since the beginn-
ing of 1992, bringing the
total number of starts from
January 1, 1990 to 11,250.
But at the Jerusalem In-
formation Center, Danny
Shukrun speaks of
13,000-14,000 units being
completed by the end of the
summer, and a pamphlet
distributed by the Judea,
Samaria and Gaza Council
at a 500-shekel-a-plate
dinner last week claims that
20,000 units are currently
under construction (not all of
which are covered by the
Housing Ministry's fail-safe
pledge to contractors).
The nature of these units
also varies widely, as do the
terms under which they are
being sold. In Ginot
Shomron, for example, a
comfortable 25-minute drive
from Tel Aviv (when there's
no traffic on the two-lane
road through the Samarian
foothills), the Central Com-
pany for the Development of
Samaria is offering 42 five-
and six-room "cottages"
(which roughly translates
into two-story town houses)
for $1,000 per square meter
(or $100,000 dollars for the
three-bedroom, 1,076-square-
foot model and $125,000 for
the four-bedroom, 1,345-
square-foot one).
The view of the Samarian
mountains is exquisite. And

the health, educational, and
banking services available
in the community are cer-
tainly adequate. Ginot
Shomron is adjacent to the
more veteran settlement of
Karnei Shomron, a religious
community of mostly pri-
vately built (and rather
sumptuous) homes.
There are already 560
families in Ginot Shomron,
and it does not enjoy the
most-preferred development
status. Nevertheless, young
couples buying property
there can avail themselves
not only of a 25-year
government mortgage but
also of a newly legislated
government loan granted
only to preferred areas.
Better yet, portions of both -
the mortgage and special
"local loan" later turn into
grants, and they can be sup-
plemented by a further loan
from the building company
itself.
For those who happen to be
Orthodox, more. adven-
turous, and willing to start
but more modestly, Eli, deep _
in the heart of the Samarian
mountains, is offering one-
family, two-bedroom, 735-
square-foot houses for a neat
$43,333 (plus $1,000
registration fees and an-
other $7,100 for gardening
and hook up to a central TV
antenna).
The settlement is a
healthy 40-minute ride away
from Jerusalem (via the
Arab town of RaMallah) and
a 45-minute ride from Tel
Aviv past a number of Arab
villages It now has 500 in-
habit ants (some 100
families) and is aiming to
triple its size. Preferred
buyers can get up to 95 per-
cent of the cost of a hoilse in
mortgages, loans, and
grants.
But not everyone can get
through the door in Eli; pur-
chasers must be approved by
an special Acceptance
Board, which undoubtedly
judges their ability to adjust
to the relatively spartan
conditions.
Public relations, far more
than ideological fervor, has
been responsible for bring-
ing close to 100,000 Israelis
to live in Judea, Samaria
and Gaza over the past
decade.
Now these same instincts
and talents are again at
work to swell the Jewish
population of the territories
by a third to a half in the
space of a few months,
despite unemployment, the
peace process, the elections, .
harsh words from Washing-
ton, and other symptoms and
symbols of uncertainty.
It is an ambitious goal.

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