Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked will bring a controversial bill recognizing illegal settler outposts to a vote in a ministerial committee today, despite a request from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to postpone it.
The bill was proposed as a way to prevent the upcoming evacuation of the Amona outpost, which lies east of Ramallah on what has been ruled private Palestinian land.
Netanyahu wanted it postponed because the government has asked the Supreme Court for an additional delay in evacuating Amona, to find a solution for its residents.
But the Jewish Home party are pushing for the bill to be passed as soon as possible, fearing that any further delay in passing the bill would leave insufficient time to push the legislation through the Knesset before December 25 — the date the Supreme Court has set for the demolition of Amona.
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv, on August 30, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
And Shaked announced today that she would bring it for a vote anyway, despite Netanyahu’s objections.
Earlier today Netanyahu and Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett clashed over the bill in the weekly Cabinet meeting.
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