The Israeli government has legalized three additional communities in Judea and Samaria, days after it recognized five other towns.
Formally recognized are: Mahane Gadi, a town of 37 families near the existing community of Masu’a in the Jordan Valley, Givat Hanan outside of Sussia in the Hebron Hills area of Judea, and Kedem Arava, near Beit HaArava just north of the Dead Sea.
Last week MK Bezalel Smotrich hailed the upcoming housing approvals and recognition of additional communities as a death knell for Palestinian statehood. He said, “Thank God, we are building and developing the settlements and thwarting the danger of a Palestinian state.”