Carmit
Carmit
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  Carmit Location within Northern Negev region of Israel  Carmit Location within Israel | |
| Coordinates: 31°20′9″N 34°54′1″E / 31.33583°N 34.90028°E | |
| Country |  Israel |
| District | Southern |
| Founded | 2005 |
Carmit (Hebrew: כרמית) is a community settlement in the northern Negev desert in Israel, within the jurisdiction of Meitar located near Kramim forest.
History
[edit]The community was founded for olim from North America.[1] A neighborhood for ultra-Orthodox Jews was also planned.[1] In 2005 the District Planning and Building Commission of the Southern Region approved the construction of 739 housing units for Carmit's Phase A. Residents moved into the first neighborhood during 2013,[2][3] with the community eventually intended to comprise over 2,500 housing units, each on an area of 1/8 acre (1/2 dunam).
Absorption to Carmit is being carried out by the Jewish National Fund,[1] the Jewish Agency, the Meitar local council and the OR Movement that has established six new communities in the Negev, West Bank and Galilee – Sansana (West Bank, est. 1997-2000), Merchav Am, Mitzpe Ilan, Haruv (2004), Be'er Milka (2006), and Giv'ot Bar (2004).
In 2011, marketing for plots of land began.[4]
Gallery
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References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Developing New Communities". Jewish National Fund. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
- ↑ Dorronk (2011-02-15). "Newest Negev community - Carmit". The South African Zionist Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-08-29. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ↑ Ehud Zion Waldoks (2011-02-04). "First housing plots in new Negev community go up for sale". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
- ↑ Koriel, Ilana (February 2, 2011). "יישוב כרמית יוצא לדרך: מגרשים ראשונים למכירה" [Carmit Gets Going: First Plots for Sale]. Yedioth Ahronoth (in Hebrew). Retrieved April 16, 2019.
External links
[edit]- Carmit's official website (version archived in 2018)
- Or Movement's official website (in Hebrew)
- Carmit (in Hebrew)
- Jewish National Fund
