{"id":13235,"date":"2015-10-07T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=13235&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2025-01-16T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:40:56","slug":"the-impact-of-bypass-roads-on-the-development-of-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-impact-of-bypass-roads-on-the-development-of-settlements","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Bypass Roads on the Development of Settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Lieberman Road &#8211; Case Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Read the full report on the development of the settlements along the Lieberman Road: <a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/leiberman-road-report.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/leiberman-road-report.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13238\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/liebermanRd.jpg\" alt=\"liebermanRd\" width=\"301\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/liebermanRd.jpg 600w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/liebermanRd-161x105.jpg 161w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/liebermanRd-330x215.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><u>Main Findings:<\/u><br \/>\nThe accelerated development of settlements along the Lieberman Road has become evident in the eight years since it was opened to traffic:<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>90% increase in the number of settlers<\/strong> (3,122 in late 2008; 5,923 in late 2014; (and 10,611 in 2024 &#8211; update from January 2025).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>At least 450 new residential<\/strong> units were built, comprising and increase of 1.5 in the number of residential units.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>~7,200 new residential units in various planning stages:<\/strong> 293 residential units in Tko&#8217;a and Nokdim have been approved by the Minister of Defense and are subject to the approval process; plans for another 900 new residential units in Tko&#8217;a, Asfar and Ma&#8217;aleh Amos have been submitted to the planning institutions; plans for establishing a city of ~6,000 residential units in Ma&#8217;aleh Amos are being prepared by the Ministry of Housing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Three new settlement points were established:<\/p>\n<ol dir=\"ltr\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>A new illegal outpost west of Ma&#8217;aleh Amos;<\/li>\n<li>A new industrial zone is being built north of Ma&#8217;aleh Amos;<\/li>\n<li>Settlers conduct various activities on the military base that was vacated, east of Beit Sahour (&#8220;Shdema&#8221;) and they have established in it a gallery and synagogue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Four illegal outposts are becoming settlements<\/strong> \u2013 Four illegal outposts are in various stages of planning and approval (Ibei HaNachal, Ma&#8217;aleh Rehavam, Kfar Eldad and Sdeh Bar).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Tourism development<\/strong> \u2013 Tens of millions of NIS were invested at the Herodion site, with a marked increase in the number of visitors.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/leiberman-road-report.pdf\">Download the full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/libermanrdeng.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17672\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17672\" src=\"http:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/libermanrdeng.jpg\" alt=\"libermanrdeng\" width=\"900\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/libermanrdeng.jpg 900w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/libermanrdeng-115x161.jpg 115w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/libermanrdeng-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/libermanrdeng-330x462.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lieberman Road &#8211; Case Study Read the full report on the development of the settlements along the Lieberman Road: click here Main Findings: The accelerated development of settlements along the Lieberman Road has become evident in the eight years since it was opened to traffic: 90% increase in the number of settlers (3,122 in late&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/the-impact-of-bypass-roads-on-the-development-of-settlements\" title=\"Read The Impact of Bypass Roads on the Development of Settlements\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2511,16],"tags":[1320,2520,154],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports-en","category-settlement-watch","tag-liberman-road","tag-roads","tag-154"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42812,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/42812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}