Israel Hayom newspaper on Tuesday reported that Israel is seeking to take advantage of what it described as the “historic opportunity” embodied in the current US administration to legalize settlement outposts built in the West Bank during the past 20 years.
Israel’s Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett had called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seize the opportunity and organize settlement construction in the West Bank by legalizing dozens of random outposts.
According to the Hebrew newspaper Katz said that there is a legal plan already prepared to allow 300 Israeli families living in these outposts to settle down.
For his part Bennet said that the US administration’s policies led by president Donald Trump go in line with Israel’s interests adding that it is time for real actions in the international arena.
In response to the two ministers’ requests Netanyahu’s office confirmed that the team established about a year and a half ago have made significant progress in that regard and that the delay was due to bureaucratic reasons.
