After the government approved the establishment of the new ultra-Orthodox city of Kasif, the Nitzana community and five Mevoot Arad communities, the government today (Sunday) approved the minister’s proposal Ayelet Shaked And the Minister Wolf Elkin For the establishment of seven additional new localities in the eastern Negev and the northern Negev.
In addition, the government is discussing a directive to examine the establishment of five additional new settlements and an employment area along the Beer Sheva-Dimona axis (Route 25), which are expected to include about 10,500 housing units. And yes, the government is considering a new urban settlement, north of Lehavim. This is a large locality that is expected to contain about 15,000 housing units that will house about 80,000 people.
Interior Minister Shaked said: “We were like dreamers. In less than a month, the Israeli government approved 14 new settlements in the Negev. After years of non-construction policy, the Negev has been revived. This is an important and strategic step of the first order.” Very high”.
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“The new settlements will give a significant boost to the strengthening of the periphery and settlement in the Negev. It is at this time, in view of all the security incidents, that the Israeli government establishes an urban continuum, sets a stake, and begins to build Jewish settlements in the Negev. She added.
The Minister of Construction and Housing, Elkin, added: “The establishment of these settlements is the realization of an important Zionist vision to strengthen and settle the Negev.