(JTA) Rachel Pomerance - The Israel government is planning to construct 30 new settlements over the next several years in sparsely populated areas of the Negev and Galilee as part of Israel's mission to offset growing Arab populations in those regions. Most Jews who have left Israel's main population centers for the desert cite the Zionist spirit of pioneering as the reason for their move.
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