تطوير الشمال والجنوب

Returning security to the residents of the Gaza envelope and the confrontation line.

• •We will initiate a broad move to end the war and establish a regional arrangement that will bring long-term security and end the policy of rounds.
• •In Gaza we will advance the entry of an alternative government to Hamas and international forces, and lead a move to demilitarize the Strip and prevent smuggling.
• •In Lebanon we will insist on removing Hezbollah beyond the Litani and deploying international enforcement forces, and reach an arrangement with the Lebanese government that will allow a gradual process of disarming Hezbollah.
• •At the same time, we will significantly strengthen the communities' defense systems, above and below ground, increase forces in the field and institute a policy of zero tolerance for any security violation.

Allowing families and communities in the border communities to return to life.

• •Directing budgets to complete the protection programs for communities in the Negev and Galilee, adding positions for trauma-treatment professionals and for promoting community resilience, and giving economic certainty to businesses and the self-employed until they return to full activity.
• •Ensuring fair and fast compensation for war damage, and expanding the budgets of the business houses that accompany small businesses.
• •Giving families in the affected communities the right to choose: return, temporary relocation or a permanent solution, and arranging fair and proper solutions for those who did not return home.

Completing the Takuma and Tnufa programs and ensuring budgetary certainty and fast, efficient implementation in the short term.

• •Securing the Takuma and Tnufa budgets for residents through the end of 2030 in the first stage, to create certainty and stability for residents, communities and authorities.
• •Reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and ensuring that the state is the one chasing after the problems, not residents chasing after the state.
• •Adding at least NIS 15 billion to the multi-year plan for rehabilitating and developing the Hevel Tnufa region in the north.
• •Strengthening the powers and execution capabilities of the Tnufa Administration by legislating a broad rehabilitation law for Hevel Tnufa (similar to Takuma), and establishing, within the National Administration for Developing the North and South, a dedicated implementation team for the north, which will coordinate the implementation of the programs with local authorities and ensure full realization of the budgets with minimal bureaucracy and maximum joint work with the authorities.

Creating growth engines and investing in industry, quality employment and social services in the north and south.

• •Leading a deep change in national priorities: instead of huge budgets for outposts and annexation and tax benefits for settlers, directing budgets to changing reality in the north and south.
• •Approving a government program for investment in social services: the north and south first.
• •Expanding investment in health, education (with emphasis also on informal education and early childhood), welfare and public transportation, and investing in housing and infrastructure.
• •Creating growth engines, quality employment and a strong regional economy: increasing government support for industry and advancing advanced and innovative industry, supporting local agriculture, strengthening local businesses, advancing local procurement and vocational training in order to create quality jobs and build a strong and diverse regional economy.
• •Investing in rehabilitating the industrial zones, factories and logistics chains in the north, the Gaza envelope and the entire Negev.
• •Expanding support and strengthening the existing innovation centers in the periphery and advancing a program for industrial and scientific literacy.
• •Expanding the powers of local authorities and providing them with the resources, manpower and professional capabilities required to exercise them.
• •Strengthening the regional clusters and investing in developing cities as a focus of quality of life for the entire region.
• •Developing the north and south in permanent partnership with the authorities, communities, workers, employers and civil society.
• •In particular, investing budgets in training, recruiting and strengthening the human capital in local authorities, the backbone of the rehabilitation and development process.

Establishing a national administration that will lead long-term development.

• •Replacing a politics of firefighting with a state that plans ahead.
• •Leading a national multi-year program that will give budgetary certainty that allows long-term investments and narrowing of the gaps with the center of the country.
• •The government will set a separate multi-year budget framework for developing the north and south, which will allow long-term investments in public services, infrastructure and regional growth engines.
• •The National Administration for Developing the North and South will be established in the Prime Minister's Office, will work in coordination with the Takuma Administration and the existing rehabilitation programs, and will lead multidisciplinary national missions, strengthen the state's planning and execution capabilities, ensure coordination among government ministries and measure success by residents' quality of life: public services, employment, wages, transportation, community resilience and narrowing regional gaps.