The Door to Door Project was launched for the purpose of helping Arab business people transfer their merchandise from Judea and Samaria to other areas in Israel directly and quickly and at a low cost.
Until the project’s launch, the “Back to Back” procedure for transfer of Arab goods for sale in to Israel required that an Arab businessperson deliver the goods to a crossing on an Arab-owned truck, where the merchandise would be unloaded, checked, and reloaded onto an Israeli truck that would bring the merchandise to its destination.
In recent months, the IDF’s Civil Administration initiated and led a pilot program in which five Arab production plants transferred their merchandise via the Tarqumiya Crossing, south of Hebron, to other areas in Israel using an Israeli truck that left the Arab production plant, underwent a security check and continued directly to its destination in Israel.
So far, the project has been crowned as a success. The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the IDF unit tasked with implementing the government’s civilian policy in Judea and Samaria and vis-à-vis the Gaza Strip, reported that five Arab companies have increased their profits by more than NIS 500,000 in the first six months of the project’s implementation.
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IDF Broadens Project that Boosts Arab Business in Hebron Area
