Jared Kushner, former White House senior adviser and son-in-law to Donald Trump, has pitched a $112 billion plan to transform the war-battered Gaza Strip into a high-tech hub, according to a report from the Times of India. The outlet summarizes the proposal as turning “Gaza rubble into a tech hub,” a vision that would lean on large-scale investment to remake the enclave’s economy and infrastructure Times of India.

Why it matters: Even as humanitarian needs dominate the present, ideas for Gaza’s long-term reconstruction are surfacing — and Kushner’s pitch signals that some influential figures in Republican circles are thinking in terms of private-capital-led redevelopment and technology-driven jobs. A concept on this scale would, in theory, seek to catalyze growth across housing, utilities, transit, and digital infrastructure while courting regional and global investors.

Reality check: Any postwar megaproject in Gaza faces daunting obstacles. The territory’s future governance and security arrangements remain unsettled; basic services and supply lines are fragile; and the path to property rights, permitting, and investor protections is unclear. In short, the politics, the peace, and the pipes would all have to line up before capital could.

What to watch next

• Whether Kushner or affiliated entities publish a formal blueprint with financing sources, timelines, and partners.
• Signals from regional governments, multilateral lenders, and major infrastructure firms on appetite for Gaza reconstruction at this scale.
• Concrete movement on cease-fire, access, and governance — preconditions for any ground-up redevelopment to proceed.

The bottom line: The headline-grabbing $112 billion figure underscores how vast Gaza’s reconstruction challenge is — and how ambitious some redevelopment visions have become. Turning rubble into a tech hub is a compelling narrative; transforming it into a bankable, buildable plan will require clarity on peace, politics, and practicalities first.

Source: Times of India report on Kushner’s proposal here.