Jewish Home chair Naftali Bennett says a bill to recognize unauthorized West Bank outposts and illegal construction will be brought for a vote on Sunday, calling on Knesset members to support the measure.
The proposal, designed to avert the court-ordered demolition of the Amona outpost by the end of the year, will be mulled over by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, which decides on coalition support for bills.
“The time has come for thousands of people to live normal lives,” he tells his weekly faction meeting at the Knesset. “These people have been discriminated against just because of where they live.”
Right-wing lawmakers have been seeking a legal loophole to prevent the evacuation of the Amona outpost — built on private Palestinian land and ordered by the Supreme Court to be demolished — with a bill that would formally recognize West Bank outposts.
But the earlier version of the bill, proposed by Jewish Home MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli, was deemed unconstitutional by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.
“I call on all of my colleagues in the Knesset to support the new bill,” Bennett says.
— Raoul Wootliff
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