Two days before Secretary Kerry\u2019s visit, the Government is issuing tenders for 1,061 units in the West Bank and for another 828 units in East Jerusalem. The tenders are the last stage before the construction begins: a few months after the publication of the tenders the winning bids are selected and the winning contractors may apply for construction permits and start the construction few weeks or months afterwards.<\/p>\n
The Tenders Issued Today (3\/11\/13):<\/strong><\/p>\n Elkana \u2013 283 units<\/p>\n Maale Adumim \u2013 114 units (112 of them in neighborhood 06, and another two in neighborhood 07)<\/p>\n Karnei Shomron \u2013 196 units \u2013 the settlement is located east of the built route of the Barrier<\/p>\n Givat Zeev \u2013 102 units \u2013 at the Banana Hill neighborhood<\/p>\n Ariel \u2013 18 units \u2013 in the eastern part of the settlement \u2013 east of the built route of the Barrier.<\/p>\n Adam (AKA Geva Binyamin) \u2013 80 units \u2013 east of the Separation Barrier. The plan and the infrastructure were prepared for the evicted settlers of Migron who have chosen a different location, and now it is marketed for the general public.<\/p>\n Beitar Illit \u2013 238 units \u2013 in neighborhood B2.<\/p>\n In addition, the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization published last week a tender to build 30 units in Beit El. This is not a regular tender offering the rights to build and sell a construction project, but a special tender where the Government is funding the construction and will grant the buildings to a private body dedicated in advance. This construction is part of the compensation deal that the Government signed with the settlers of the Ulpana Hill that was built on private Palestinian land and evicted following a court order.<\/p>\n In East Jerusalem:<\/strong><\/p>\n Gilo \u2013 311 units \u2013 in Western Gilo Slopes<\/p>\n Ramat Shlomo \u2013 387 units \u2013 it is part of the plan for 1,500 units that became published during the visit of Vice President Biden in 2010.<\/p>\n Har Homa B \u2013 130 units for the elderly \u2013 this tender was first published in 2008 and then again in 2011 and 2012 \u2013 but no bids were awarded.<\/p>\n Update from 4\/11\/13 – Today another tender was published for 397 units in Western Gilo Slopes (in addition to yesterday’s 311 units). Those 397 units were tendered in August 2013 but no winning bids were awarded, and now the Government is issuing the same units in tenders.<\/p>\n Peace Now: \u201cWhenever Netanyahu makes a small step towards peace he makes two larger steps to make it harder to get to peace. The tenders that were published today, that include construction east of the Barrier and in especially controversial areas, will not only make the talks harder but would create facts on the ground that will make the two states solution much harder\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two days before Secretary Kerry\u2019s visit, the Government is issuing tenders for 1,061 units in the West Bank and for another 828 units in East Jerusalem. The tenders are the last stage before the construction begins: a few months after the publication of the tenders the winning bids are selected and the winning contractors may… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1348],"class_list":["post-13873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-settlement-watch","tag-tenders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873","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=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13875,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions\/13875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}