Attempts to Break Through the Boundaries

The bid by Kafar Kanna and Meshhed to join the Zipporit industrial area was not the only move of its kind, though it is certainly the most prominent, in part by virtue of the clearly visible political maneuver mounted by the Arab towns and their leaders. Such participation might be seen as an attempt to break through the boundaries separating Jewish development from Arab development as set byAUDG. The Ministry of the Interior and its boundary commissions, and later, the Ministry of Industry were involved in varying degrees and ways in such moves. This chapter will take up these