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Incoming tourism minister vows to invest in West Bank, ‘Israel’s Tuscany’
Tourism Minister Haim Katz arrives for a group picture of the new government at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
Incoming Tourism Minister Haim Katz vows to increase investments in parts of the country that he says have been underserved, including the occupied West Bank, the site of an ongoing terror wave, which he compares to the pastoral Italian countryside.
“We will invest in areas that perhaps did not receive enough attention thus far, including our local Tuscany in Judea and Samaria,” he says during a handover ceremony with his predecessor Yoel Razvozov.
