Rural communities and agriculture

Strengthening rural settlement and securing its future.

• •Leading a policy that will let kibbutzim, moshavim and community settlements renew and grow.
• •This through long-term planning together with the communities, investment in infrastructure and public services, and adapting planning statutes to the communities' needs.
• •Strengthening the economy and industry in the communities and advancing their ability to sustain a multi-generational, renewing community, advancing diverse housing solutions including long-term rental, removing planning barriers and investing in infrastructure and public services.

Strengthening rural settlement on the borders and developing the north and south with a regional view.

• •Turning agriculture and settlement on the borders into a national growth engine through investments in infrastructure, education, transportation, public services and employment.
• •Strengthening the ability of kibbutzim, moshavim and rural communities to develop agriculture, industry, energy, tourism, services and small businesses in their areas.
• •At the same time, strengthening the regional clusters in the north and south and the frontier towns, from a concept of shared regional development in which the city and the village strengthen each other.

Leading a national food-security strategy, rehabilitating Israeli agriculture and increasing local production.

• •Advancing a national plan for 2050 that will ensure local production, emergency stockpiles and risk management, as an integral part of Israel's national security concept.
• •Leading a stable agricultural policy based on planning, national targets and partnership with farmers, local authorities, farmers' unions and the rural space.
• •Establishing a multi-year system of support for agriculture, direct and otherwise, in line with national production targets, agriculture's contribution to food security, preserving land and open spaces and the adjustments required in light of climate change.
• •Giving farmers long-term certainty that will allow investment, innovation and growth.

Securing the future of Israeli agriculture and developing it as the leading force of Israeli innovation.

• •Strengthening research and innovation so that Israel continues to stand at the forefront of technological progress in agriculture.
• •Advancing the use of advanced technological tools and methods that will protect nature, the soil and the quality of everyone's food.
• •Preserving agricultural lands and open spaces, and advancing prudent, multi-purpose use of land.
• •Supporting the development of agrivoltaic facilities and the removal of barriers to building them, while ensuring that agricultural cultivation continues.
• •Regulating the water economy and training a new generation of farmers.

Lowering the cost of living through a fair and efficient food system.

• •Strengthening farmers' bargaining power, narrowing intermediary gaps, increasing transparency in the marketing chain and managing trade policy so that it protects local production, benefits consumers and strengthens food security.

Advancing long-term planning of the energy economy together with the authorities and communities and accelerating the shift to renewable energy.

• •The state will return to leading energy-economy planning in an integrated way, and will not abandon the shaping of the space to private initiatives and uncoordinated activity of government bodies.
• •We will advance long-term planning based on a systemic view that balances energy security, food security, environmental considerations and the needs of the economy and local communities.
• •We will accelerate the shift to renewable energy and energy storage, with emphasis on dual use, while protecting agriculture and open spaces, planning the grid infrastructure and involving the authorities, farmers and local communities.
• •We will ensure that substantive decisions on energy infrastructure in the rural space are made in partnership and agreement with the local authorities and communities concerned, and from a comprehensive economic, social, environmental and agricultural examination.