Satellite Photo Map. Source: The Applied Research Institute-
Jerusalem (ARIJ). Apart from a brief flurry of media attention
at the end of 2007 when reports surfaced of post-Annapolis plans
to build one of the largest Jewish residential settlements in
one of the strategic and densely-populated areas of contiguous
Palestinian inhabitation in the Jerusalem area, there has been
very little public interest focused on present-day Atarot, an
area of former Jewish settlement and now the location of an
Israeli-operated industrial zone adjacent to Qalandia. It is the
site of two major infrastructure installations – one is a non-
operational but still-viable airport originally built by the
British during the mandate period, and the other is Jerusalem
largest industrial zone, constructed by the Israeli Land
Administration after Israel’s 1967 conquest. These two
installations appear to have become sweeteners in a proposed
Israeli interim deal recently tabled in Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations. Proposed Jewish Settlement of