Fear of election results? Settlements regulated and hundreds of homes advanced for construction

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the regulation of the settlements of Avigail and Mitzpe Kramim and the advancement of 541 new housing units in Judea and Samaria, with a political reference to a possible future government.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the final regulation of the settlements of Avigail and Mitzpe Kramim in Judea and Samaria, and the advancement of 541 new housing units in the area. In the settlement of Avigail in the Hebron Hills, a plan for 278 housing units will be approved, and in Mitzpe Kramim in Binyamin, a plan for 63 housing units will be advanced, ending a 27-year legal battle. Additionally, in Kiryat Arba, a plan for 200 housing units will be approved. Smotrich presented the move as a response to a possible future government led by Eisenkot-Lieberman-Golan, which he said would want to evacuate settlements. The article quotes Smotrich but does not bring a response from elements in the current government or the opposition.