On any other week, most of the international headlines would have gone to the government’s intention to cancel key parts of the Disengagement Law and to potentially re-legalize the four northern West Bank settlements Israel withdrew from in 2005 — Homesh, Ganim, Kadim and Sa-Nur.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sixth government is also potentially gearing up to change the reality in other longtime flashpoints, such as the Evyatar illegal outpost.
Taking advantage of the new government position — which constitutes a reversal of many years of policy, including by successive previous Netanyahu governments — around a thousand settlers are planning to spend the night of the Passover Seder this spring in Evyatar and 500 will head to Homesh, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language sister site Zman Yisrael has learned.
The settlers intend to refuse to leave the two outposts, both of which have a long history of legal battles and past evacuations. READ MORE
