A structured scientific solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: the analytic hierarchy process approach

Decision Analytics

Table 16 Land swap evaluation

Criteria:	Area (km²)	Natural resources	Goal: evaluation of land swap						Final scores
Criteria:	Area (km²)	Natural resources	Size (0.02)	Location (0.28)	Infrastructure (0.05)	Natural resources (0.29)	Territorial contiguity (0.29)	Potential for development (0.06)	Final scores
Alternatives:
Beit Shean Valley	18	Orchards greenhouses vegetables fisheries	0.6	0.79	0.86	0.79	0.9	0.95	0.83
Judea Plain		Agriculture pasture lands	0.8	0.79	0.56	0.56	0.79	0.82	0.71
Northern Lakhish Region	37.3
Southern Lakhish Region	16.2
Northern Lahav Reserve	3.8
Eastern Lahav Reserve	6.1
Northern Negev			0.6	0.5	0.21	0.38	0.5	0.44	0.45
Arad Valley	93.5	Forestry Agriculture Nature Reserve
Yatir Mountains	26.9	Vineyards
Gaza Envelop	67.7	Orchards greenhouses vegetables nature reserve	0.9	0.82	0.69	0.75	0.86	0.86	0.81
Halutza Sands	178.1	Aquifer	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	0

Evaluation of the five locations for land swap in terms of their potential to fulfill the five criteria listed