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07:50 | Difficulties in forming the government? The Likud postponed all the negotiation meetings planned for today.
07:29 | The chairman of Religious Zionism, Bezalel Smotritz, demanded during the coalition negotiations that the Likud re-enact the settlement law that was invalidated by the High Court. This was reported this morning (Wednesday) here by Network B. The bill approved in 2017 sought to regulate the status of thousands of Israeli homes in Judea and Samaria that were built without a permit, and stated that if they were built in good faith, even if it is private land, their legal status will be regulated and if a Palestinian owner is found, he will receive financial compensation or alternative land.
The judges of the High Court annulled the regularization law three years later, in 2020, on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. Now, religious Zionism is demanding that the Likud re-enact the law and regularize the thousands of homes in Judea and Samaria, when what should ensure that the law is not invalidated a second time is the overcoming clause, which should to protect him to the extent that the High Court requests to cancel it.