The Finance Ministry presents a compensation plan to help bring evacuees home back to their homes in the north at the beginning of March.
“The key to returning home is security and we are not going to compromise on this matter,” says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. “Residents of the north are returning to a different security reality, and we will make sure that quiet is maintained for years.”
According to the compensation plan, northern residents who return to their homes starting in March will receive grants of NIS 25,360 per adult and NIS 12,680 per child.
Evacuated residents will be entitled to two separate grants. The first will assist with their return home and the second is intended to compensate returnees for the damage caused to their homes that was not compensated by property tax authorities.
Dozens of communities in the north of the country were evacuated after the October 7 massacre in 2023, as the Hezbollah terror group began launching near-daily attacks from Lebanon.
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