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Sustainable Jerusalem: Next Steps towards 2020
Prof. Glenn Yago, Senior Director
Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
Jerusalem 3-D Conference
Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
UCLA
May 31, 2015
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Milken Innovation Center
Based at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, we are a financial R&D center that focuses
on building financial solutions to enable Israel to move from the “start-up nation” to the “scale-
up nation.”
Fellows
Projects
Financial
Innovations
Labs
We build practical, market-based, data-driven solutions that achieve results…
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Specifics
Fellows
Projects
Financial
Innovations
Labs
• Towards Affordable Housing in Israel
• Capital Access in Israel’s Underserved
Markets
• (Re)Investing Israel’s Capital Markets
• Building a Social Capital Market in Israel
• New Techniques for Financing
Biomedical Technologies
• Financing Solid Waste Treatment in
Israel
• Cultural Heritage as an Economic
Development Resource
• National Economic Council
• Tax Authority
• Ministry of Finance
• Ministry of Economy
• Office of the Chief Scientist
• Ministry of Environmental Protection
• Bank of Israel
• Office of Fuel Alternatives
• Strengthening Israel’s Regions
• Financing the Infrastructure for the
Kidron Valley
• Financial Inclusion Tools and Policies
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Regional Development
Financial Authority
• Revenue bonds for
infrastructure, small business
• Credit enhancement from
philanthropic investors and
government
• Our Role: Lab, research,
modeling, structuring (2007 to
2014)
• Results: government action
being considered for Negev and
Galilee
• Initial social investment:
$220,000
• Expected program results:
$60,000,000
• Status: pending official
government action led by
National Economic Council,
Ministry of Finance, and Ministry
of Economy
New Models – New Results
Relevant examples of some other related projects…and results so far
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Social Investment Fund
• Leverage social investment into
social enterprise
• Credit enhancement from
philanthropic investors and
government to leverage capital
market investments
• Our role: Lab, Fellows,
research, modeling, structuring
(2010-2014)
• Results: government tender for
launch of social investment fund
in 2014
• Initial social investment:
$180,000
• Expected program results
$50,000,000
• Status: tender issued
Affordable Housing
Initiative
• Range of tools and programs to
encourage development of
affordable housing
• Equity, debt, tax credits,
guarantees, etc.
• Role: Lab, fellows, research,
modeling, structuring
(2012-2014)
• Results: Ministries considering
adapting specific actions
• Initial social investment:
$125,000
• Expected program results: $23
billion (long term private
investment)
• Status: Under review by
Housing Cabinet and Ministries
River Revitalization
• Range of tools and programs to
encourage infrastructure, clean-
up, and development
• Project financing
• Role: Lab, research, modeling,
project structure (2011-2014)
• Results: project financing plan
for regional sewage treatment,
economic and community
development plan
• Initial social investment:
$110,000
• Expected program results:
$98.6 million
• Status: pending government
approval
8. Milken
Innovation
CenterWhat are the strategic investment
opportunities in Jerusalem?
Affordable Communities
Downtown Partnerships
Sustainable
Infrastructures
East Jerusalem
Economic Development
Project goals
and
representative
projects
These goals are based on the Jerusalem Foundation’s
Working Policy Paper on Jerusalem (May 2014)
9. Milken
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CenterStrategic opportunity
Affordable Communities
Opportunity
§ Increase the range of housing options for poor, working poor,
students, young families, and the middle class
§ Design scalable financial services to Jerusalem’s youth, student,
and growing family populations
Projects
• Affordable housing - leverage philanthropic investments to create scalable and
sustainable financing solutions to provide affordable housing in Jerusalem
• Credit union - create community-based credit union to provide cost-effective, scalable
financial services to students, young families, and the city’s middle class
• Business development – technical assistance and access to affordable financing for the
development and growth of small businesses
10. Milken
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Downtown Partnerships
Opportunity
• Enhance downtown as a destination for retail, quality office, and
cultural attractions
• Build public and private partnerships to attract investment and
residents into urban center
Projects
• Office incubator spaces - invest in incubator office spaces for competitive businesses in
the City’s core to leverage the City’s comparative advantages
• Creative hubs - leverage philanthropic and government investments in the city core to
strengthen the growth and development of schools, dormitories, art studios and galleries,
and related services in the urban core
• Business improvement districts - create public, private, and philanthropic partnerships to
leverage new sources of investment for business district development.
11. Milken
Innovation
CenterStrategic opportunity
Developing Urban Infrastructures
Opportunity
§ Improve tourism and cultural heritage infrastructures, including
museums, parking, and support services
§ Strengthen water, alternative energy sources, land management,
and education facilities
§ Integrate and enhance natural habitats in urban fabric
Projects
• Physical assets - Develop scalable environmental, energy, transit, and tourism and
cultural heritage, and waste treatment assets
• Community assets - Leverage philanthropic investments and engage private investors in
creative communities (creative arts and engineering schools, galleries, and community-
based programs)
12. Milken
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CenterStrategic opportunity
East Jerusalem Economic Development
Opportunity
§ Leverage global market for Jerusalem’s modern and ancient
cultures
§ Expand business and community development in Arab
neighborhoods
Projects
• Leverage philanthropic investments in build a sustainable
financing and technical support program, including:
– Youth outreach and center for entrepreneurial training in social enterprise and technology
– Business hub for tourism-related business development and network development
– Community-based and business development and entrepreneurship training
– Social enterprise development to support young leaders to develop social enterprises
• Create regional tourism improvement district to invest new capital into tourism sector
13. Milken
Innovation
CenterEconomic Development Tools
Economic
Development
Real Estate
Project
Real
Estate &
Property
Special
Districts
(Tourism,
BIDs,
etc.)
Taxes &
Revenue/
Results Based
Financing
P3 +
Infrastructure
Land
Use /
Zoning
(Higher
Density;
Parking)
Cities have 5 BASIC TOOLS for Public Private Projects
Theses tools often work best when used together
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Opportunities Investment structure financial and social returns
Affordable
communities
• Community investment notes
• Community development bank
• Shared equity funds
• Loan interest
• Sustainable financial services
• Fee income
• Upside equity returns
Infrastructure • Credit enhancements
• Regional development bonds
• Tax increment financing
• Guarantee fees
• Bond interest and fees
• Access to low cost capital
Downtown
partnerships
• Business improvement districts
• Business revolving loan funds
• Sustainable downtown services
• Stronger downtown amenities
East
Jerusalem
• Business development financing
• Business network development
• Regional asset financing
• Social Impact Bonds
• Royalties, interest, and fees
• Sustainable business networks
• Jobs and incomes for residents
Examples of social investment structures
with types of returns
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Stakeholders Examples of returns
Businesses more income, stronger market
Cultural institutions stronger market base, larger donor base
NGOs new revenue models and new sources of investment capital
Local government stronger tax base, new sources of capital for investment projects
Government less fiscal dependence, stronger populations
Population jobs, education, community assets
Community schools, sustainable services, and new sources of capital
Philanthropy Sustainable, scalable investments; potential returns on project upsides
to support ongoing project and program design and development
Examples of returns on investments to
stakeholders
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Social
investment
Leverage
multiple
Organization
and capacity
Low-cost, long-
term debt
Guarantees
Participating
equity
Capital market
investments
Jobs and
incomes
Fiscal balance
and savings
Investing in a sustainable Jerusalem now
A seed investment with high leverage
potential
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Indirect returns for philanthropic
seed investors:
• sustainable, scalable
investments;
• high impact outcomes; and
• potential returns on project
upsides to support ongoing
project and program design and
developmentProposed seed investment
research and planning
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Kidron Eco-Systems
Ecological & Economic: Sustainability Case Study
Water & Sewer
Treatment
Solid Waste
Treatment
Education
Agriculture
Recreation &
Tourism
Heritage &
Tourism
Economic &
Community
Development
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Steering Committee, Institutions, Basin Management and Planning Committees
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Planning Committee:
Head of the Planning Arie Rahamimoff Liora Meron
Committee: Laure Dachy - Rahamimoff Architect
Gregory Katz
Demographic and Society: Planner Israel Kimhi - Jerusalem Institute
Community Planning: Planner Muhammed Nakhal
Sewage: Eng. Amir Avishai- Afik
Drainage: Dr. Eng. Nimrod Halamish, Afik, Dr. Yulia Alexandrov
Authority: Eng. Avi Freund - Engineer at Dead Sea Drainage Authority
Landscape Architecture: Arch. Vardit Tsurnamal - Arch. Avital Hagai -
Tsurnamal-Turner
Transportation: Marc Render- Amav Transportation Planning
Chaim Schwartz - Amav
Law and Administration: Adv. Dani Livney- Laster- Gouldman
International Law: Dr. Robbie Sabel
Economy: Prof. Glenn Yago, Dr. Steven Zecher, Milken
Institute
Archaeology, Heritage, Green Osnat Post, Avner Haramati, Avner Goren
Pilgrimage and Tourism: Muhammed Nakhal
Municipal Project : Idit Alhasid Orit Golan – New Community
Muhammed Nakhal, Fuad Abu Hamed,
Haled Abu Kaf
Engineers Without Borders: Dr. Vered Blass, Avner Goren, Co-Chairs,
EWB, Israel
Society for the Protection Pazit Schweid, Pearl Kaplan, Sigalit of Nature
in Israel SPNI Rachman, Ido Wachtel, Amir Balaban
Community Building in a
Global Society Planning: Yoel Siegel, Ph.D. Director Metro-Jerusalem
URBIS
Local business initiatives Naim Awissat
Members who participated in the Master Plan Committee:
Hydrology : Prof. Eliahu Rosenthal
Drainage and Sewage:Eng. Ilan Helbetz - Lavi Natif
Members of the Steering Committee:
Chairman of the Steering Gery Amel , Dead Sea
Drainage Authority Committee: Prof. Richard Laster
Institutions participating in the Steering Committee:
City of Jerusalem
Dead Sea Drainage
Ministry of the Environment
Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
Milken Institute
Peres Center for Peace
Basin Management Committee:
City of Jerusalem: Naomi Tsur, Deputy Mayor of
Jerusalem and Deputy chair of
Dead Sea Drainage
Dead Sea Drainage Authority: Gery Amel , Dead Sea
Drainage
City of Ubiedyeh: Suleiman Abdallah Al Assa
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Lower Region
Central Region
Upper Region
Kidron Basin- Planning Regions
Length of the streambed 40 km
Aerial length 24 km
Area of the Basin 120 Sq. km.
• Upper Region 20 Sq. km.
• Central Region 70 Sq. km.
• Lower Region 30 Sq. km.
4 Legal Juristictions
Kidron Basin
Borders between Basin Regions
Streambed34
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Sewage in the Kidron/Nar
Dumping of untreated sewage in the streambed:
A violation of Israeli law, International law (crossboundary pollution), the law in the Israeli-administered
West Bank (Area C), and Palestinian law.
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ü One third of Jerusalem’s sewage, approximately 30,000 cubic meters per day,
flows down the Kidron Stream/Wadi Nar without any type of treatment.
ü Approximately 15,000 cubic meters of sewage from the Bethlehem-Beit Sahur
region flows down the stream every day.
ü A total of 40,000 to 45,000 cubic meters per day (projection for the year 2025:
60,000 cubic meters).
ü This comes to a total of 15 million cubic meters per year.
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Involving the Community and Stakeholders
2011 ינואר ,העירונית התכנון ועדת
2011 נובמבר ,III -ה תיאופילוס היווני הפטריארך
2010 מרץ ,עניין בעלי מפגש
2010 ספטמבר ,א-סוואחרה ערב בתכנית דיון
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GOALS OF THE MASTER PLAN
- Guiding Principle: The Kidron Basin- A quality area between the Old
City, Central Jerusalem and the Dead Sea
- “The Stream as a Bridge” - Between Political Entities and Cultures
- Solving the Kidron sewage problem
- Involving the Community and Stakeholders
- Improving the Population's Quality of Life
- Renewing the connection between Jerusalem, the Basin and the Desert
- Implementation of the Basin Plan in the Future44
49. Milken
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Concept
New Business
Development &
Growth
Special
District Fees
Business &
Individual
Taxes
Project Financing
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4
3
5
1
6
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Special Purpose Vehicle
Infrastructure
Construction
Sewage Collection &
Treatment
Operating
Revenues
Service
fees
50. Milken
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Explanation
Special Purpose Vehicle
Project Financing
Capital Costs
• Waste water treatment works
• Nonpoint pollution control management
• Clean-up, remediation, and conservation
ProgramOperations
• Water Collection
• Treatment
• Distribution
Operating Revenues
• Grey Water Sales
• Compost Sales
• Methane Gas Sales
• Energy Sales
Direct Public Fees
• Tap-in Fees
• Flushing Fees
• Drainage fees
• Drinking water fees
Business Growth
• Heritage & Recreation
• Tour & Lodging
• Commercial Services
• Education
Indirect Revenues
• Real Estate Taxes, Improvement
Taxes
• Recreational fees, use fees
• Business licenses
Indirect Revenues
• Tax Increments
• Special purpose taxes
• Event fees
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51. Milken
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Capital Structure Assumptions
Senior Debt
First Loss Protection
Subordinated
Debt
Credit
Enhancement
Market
Equity
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Senior Debt – 67% - Revenue
bond - Priority lien on all project
income and assets; limited
recourse to project (with limited
guarantee; priced at market
interest rates (-50 bp with
limited guarantee); 20 years
Subordinated Debt – 20% -
International Loans (World Bank -
IBRD, USAID, EIB) - Subordinated
lien on all project income and
assets; priced below market and
longer term
Credit enhancement - Israeli, EU, and US
sources (OPIC, EU-EIB, World Bank partial
risk guarantees) - Standby guarantee with
coverage on first losses up to 20% of the
outstanding principal on the senior debt;
reduced based on debt coverage
Market Equity – 5% - In-kind
services and cash contributions
by limited partners
Social Equity – 8% - Convertible Grant
(World Bank IDA Credits and grants) -
Convertible Grant (World Bank IDA Credits
and grants) Source: Milken Institute, 2013
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Operating
Revenues
Treated
Water Sales
Israel
Services
Palestinian
Services
Project Financing
Operating Revenue Assumptions
Direct - Services
revenues (2.51 NIS/cm)
provided to resident
population in Jerusalem
(85%); Jerusalem
payments handled by
Gihon Water Company
Direct - Sale of ~65% of the
treated water for agricultural
production at .50 NIS/cm;
payments on sales to
Palestinian agriculture paid
by Palestinian Authority
Indirect - Reserve Funding –
Capitalized with project financing
and financed based on a portion*
the incremental sales revenues;
fees may be collected as
supplemental fee or assessment
on international tourists
Direct - Palestinian
Authority areas (15%)
at a cost of .55 NIS/
cm; Palestinian
payments made by a
Palestinian water
company
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