הצעת חוק מעמדן של ההסתדרות הציונית העולמית ושל הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל (תיקון - הסדרת מעמדה של החטיבה להתיישבות בקידום התיישבות כפרית ובעיירות פיתוח), התשפ"ד-2024World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency for the Land of Israel (Status) Bill (Amendment – Regulating the Status of the Settlement Division in Promoting Rural Settlement and Development Towns), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

What the sponsors propose

According to the sponsors of the Bill, the budgets of the Ministry of Settlement and the Settlement Division are currently directed, pursuant to Government Decision No. 1998 of 2016, to settlement in the rural sphere only and not to development towns. They argue that this constitutes discrimination against residents of development towns in the Negev and the Galilee, who suffer from economic hardship and negative migration of young people. It is therefore proposed to establish that the Settlement Division shall also act to promote urban settlement in development towns, alongside rural settlement, and to allow the allocation of its budgets also to development towns in the Negev and the Galilee.

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An automatic summary of the explanatory notes written by the bill's sponsors. These are their arguments, not an official Knesset summary. · The bill on the Knesset website

Sponsors

Michael Mordechai Biton