Erecting a ghost town in the desert
Haaretz, Gili Cohen, 11 December 2012
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/erecting-a-ghost-town-in-the-desert.premium-1.483992
Israel has invested more than NIS 200 million in establishing a detention center for African migrants. Too bad so few of them are coming. Somewhere in the western Negev, between two military bases, the Israeli bureaucracy has vanished. It’s rare to find a construction project in this country where only 10 days separate the decision and the start of work.
Still, despite the investment of millions of shekels, the place remains desolate – just a rusted perimeter fence, a second fence with dangling barbed wire, guard towers, and row after row of green tents. Welcome to the detention facility called the tent city for African migrants, built by the Defense Ministry.