Regavim: Coalition agreements abandon the Negev

• Date: 08 June 2021
• Published date: 08 June 2021
• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff

In a statement the Regavim organization pointed out that aside from approving the whitewashing of thousands of illegal structures on about 11,000 dunams (2,718 acres) of land to create "three new communities," the coalition agreements do not stipulate what will happen to the rest of the illegal Bedouin squatters' camps nine months from now.

In addition, neither Bennett's Yamina Party nor Sa'ar's New Hope Party will have the ability to influence the outcome in a government kept afloat by Mansour Abbas and the Islamist Ra'am (United Arab List) party.

The coalition agreements place both the Bedouin Settlement Authority and the Knesset's Interior Committee, the key actors in the Negev issue, under the complete control of the left-wing bloc and...