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ew Jewish settlements are families, thus avoiding the kind
springing up all along the of problems that plague urban ar-
so-called Green Line, Is- eas.
Further to the south is Kiry-
rael's border with the West
Bank between 1949 and 1967. at Sefer, a far less affluent com-
These settlements are being giv- munity populated entirely by
en high priority by the govern- Orthodox families who moved
ment because they are expected there from Jerusalem or Bnei
to serve as a buffer zone between Brak. The facilities these fami-
Israeli-Arab villages on one side lies require — schools, syna-
and Palestinian villages on the gogues, yeshivot, mikvaot and
other. Without the Jewish set- kosher butcher shops — are in
tlements, so the authorities fear, Kiryat Safer itself, and when the
Israeli Arabs in the area might residents do travel, usually to
— formally or otherwise — be- Jerusalem or Bnei Brak in order
come part of the evolving Pales- to visit relatives, it is by bus
rather than car.
tinian entity.
Yet the success of Kiryat Sefer
Some of the settlements have
existed for quite a long time. For and other Green Line settlements
example Katzir, just above the is not likely to significantly dilute
purely Arab Wadi Ara district, the predominately Arab charac-
has been on the map for two ter of the areas in which they are
decades. But until recently, it located, as one can see by looking
never had more than a couple at the city of Umm el-Fahm, near
dozen families. Now, thanks to a Katzir. During the last four
substantial infusion of govern- decades its population has in-
ment money and a strident ad- creased from 10,000 to 30,000,
vertising campaign, it will soon thanks not to a government-spon-
sored campaign but to the ex-
have several hundred.
Almost all the people living in tremely high birth rate of the
Green Line communities like Muslim families who live there.
Katzir work elsewhere, commut- And since birth control is still not
ing to jobs in Tel Aviv, Haifa or on the agenda of those families,
points in between. Thus they can the town's fast-paced growth rate
combine city employment with is likely to continue.
Also of potential concern is the
country living, which is a big
fact that Umm el-Fahm recently
draw.
Moreover, as in American bed- was taken over by the fiercely re-
room suburbs, they live mainly ligious Islamic Movement. So far,
with other two-car, middle-class to be sure, the government has