Israeli government strengthens Council of Settlements

The Council of Settlements (Yesha) secured the government’s agreement to allow about two hundred right-wing Jews to march to the destroyed settlement of Homesh. The Council of Settlements, financed by Israeli Ministry of Interior and discredited by complacency with destruction of Jewish settlements in Gaza, periodically obtains similar concessions from the government to bolster its image among the settlers.
Right-wing activists repeatedly vowed to rebuild Homesh, a settlement in Samaria destroyed by IDF during the disengagement, with no hope to carry out their designs.