SHINY NEW CITY!

The Palestinians are busy building a city! Rawabi, the brand-new Arab Palestinian city you've never heard of  (with phase A coming to completion) will soon be accepting the first of 25,000 middle class Palestinians. But the shiny new city on the hill - a third of the engineers on this project are Palestinian woman - is not only a model of Palestinian entrepreneurship, it is also a little-known exemplar of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation. "Projects like this bring our peoples closer together", says Bashar Al-Masri, the entrepreneur behind an unprecedented construction project that is changing the West Bank landscape. Would that the politicians could learn a few lessons... 

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