The Jewish Home party doubles down on its insistence that the controversial Regulation Bill will come up Monday for its final votes in the Knesset plenum.
The bill seeks to legalize several thousand West Bank settlement homes built illegally on private Palestinian property.
“Half a million residents of Samaria, Judea and the Jordan Valley deserve normal lives just like residents of Kfar Saba and Tel Aviv. Fifty years late, the Regulation Bill will come up tomorrow and pass in the Knesset in order to give them this normalcy,” says a statement from Jewish Home.
The statement adds: “We are certain that all members of the coalition will lend their support to make that happen.”
The statement is a response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who earlier Sunday rejected pressure from his right wing over the bill.
According to media reports, Netanyahu is seeking to delay the final votes on the bill until after he meets with new US President Donald Trump on February 15.
“I’m always hearing fake ultimatums,” Netanyahu said of Jewish Home’s pressure to push the bill Monday. Such ultimatums, he added dismissively, “don’t excite me.”
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