Rawabi (Arabic: روابي‎‎ Hebrew: רוואבי‎‎, meaning "The Hills") is the first planned city built for and by Palestinians. in the West Bank, and is hailed as a "flagship Palestinian enterprise." Rawabi is located near Birzeit and Ramallah. The master plan drawn up for the high-tech city, envisages 6,000 housing units, housing a population of between 25,000 and 40,000 people, spread across six neighborhoods. Construction began in January 2010. By 2014, 650 family apartments housing an estimated 3,000 people had been completed and sold, but could not be occupied while negotiations over supplying the city with water, which had dragged on for some years, languished. The delay was attributed to the Joint Water Committe, with Israelis blaming Palestinians for the delay and Palestinians blaming Isra