- Rawabi is the first planned city in the West Bank built by and for Palestinians.
- The $1.4 billion project is the brainchild of Bashar al-Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire. Masri hopes the city can form the economic backbone of the nascent Palestinian state.
- I found the city to be beautifully constructed with the facilities one might expect of a luxury real estate development. And though around 4,000 people are already living in the city, it feels very much like a place waiting to come alive.
As I sat in a French cafè al fresco, chatting with Palestinian-American billionaire developer Bashar al-Masri, it read more >>>
Source : BusinessInsider.Com