A program published by Yisrael Beiteinu

Strengthening the Negev and Galilee

Every position from this program, grouped by the site's policy topics. The same positions also appear under each topic in the party's platform.

Crime and Personal Security

•Setting up dedicated district headquarters in the Ministry of National Security to fight agricultural and nationalist crime.
•Toughening the Penal Law and adapting it to the fight against agricultural crime, similar to the arrangements set to prevent sand theft.
•Budgetary aid to communities fighting agricultural and nationalist crime.
•Appointing dedicated prosecutors and judges and setting up courts to fight organized and agricultural crime.

•Adjusting land prices, assessments and discounts in the rural space to the Zionist and settlement goals of the State of Israel.
•Increasing assessment discounts and setting a price cap on residential land according to military service and active reserve service data.

•Strengthening the government's powers and reducing bureaucratic control over decision-making.
•Setting up a ministerial committee for planning and construction in the Negev and Galilee, which will re-examine the allocation of building permits in the comprehensive plans.
•Integrating security, criminal and national considerations into planning and the granting of building permits.
•Strengthening existing communities in the Negev and Galilee in line with the Zionist settlement vision, and accelerated implementation of government decisions to establish new communities.
•Advancing and implementing long-term comprehensive plans for the regional and local councils in the Negev and Galilee.
•Preserving the settlement character by raising the household quota under the authority of admission committees to 1,000–1,500 households, subject to approval by a ministerial committee.

•Setting up agricultural farms in the Negev and Galilee to protect state land and prevent invasions.
•Setting up a safety net or insurance fund, similar to the KANAT model, to compensate farmers and victims of protection-money extortion.