Registering a home in Tabu, mortgage approval, enforcement of environmental laws

Twenty years ago, I got married and set up our home in Kiryat Arba. Shortly after we registered as married in the Interior Ministry, I received a demand for payment of the Broadcasting Authority's fee. I called the switchboard and said I didn't have a TV. Where do you live? They asked. "In Kiryat Arba," I answered. "Oh, so send a letter that you do not hold asylum for religious and conscience reasons and cancel the demand." Kiryat Arba is a large local council, and I would bet that two-thirds of its residents held television at the time. According to the answer, I realized that most of them stated no, and I emailed a statement saying that we do not own the device for religious and conscience reasons. 

Release of infrastructure and building plans from a political context? Efrat settlement, this week // Photo: Jonathan Shaul

Shortly thereafter, we received a TV as a gift, and I was worried that a casual visit from a collection officer would be secret. I decided that if he came, I would tell him that the TV had just come in. Years later, I began working at the Broadcasting Authority, earning a fee waiver and realizing that if there is a place you will never receive a collection review, it's Kiryat Arba. There are also benefits to exclusion.

Times have changed, the fee we all pay through car insurance but the territories are still a separate part of the State of Israel. 

When Netanyahu returned from America with the Centennial Plan, everyone called it "sovereignty." Now the settlers are also flowing with the definition of "annexation" as almost derogatory, and it seems that when Netanyahu volunteered to make a commitment on July 1, he did not think the greater freedom would be more stable than the new road map. However, only fantasyists survive Israeli reality and wondered how, as a resident of Efrat in Gush Etzion, I would be affected by the annexation. Here's what I found:

1  Jordanian Taboo and Ottoman Law: The house I purchased for the best of my money is not listed in the Israel Lands Administration. When I bought it, I went to the Civil Administration, between Bethel and El Birra, to pay some more and make sure that the purchase register of the Judicial and Samaria Headquarters Property Register. Not a very complicated procedure, but it is frustrating because listing does not make me the owner of the property but a kind of leased government property. I became a family, which means that the landlady I paid for, may increase its value but also for taxpayers in various taxes. Although market forces determine sovereignty laws, the element of certainty must be expected to increase significantly. And the levy of praise that does not yet apply.

2 To  the home administration I arrived after a quest for a mortgage. The trip was short because most of the banks did not want to lend to assets for which Israeli law does not apply. At times when the security situation is poor and a potential evacuation feeling is in the air, the bank may not approve even a small loan for renovation. In that respect, sovereignty implies a bank that has nothing to worry about. So far, if residents who wanted to leverage property by partial mortgages and other purchases were denied, then banks could now be confident about the viability of the investment. True, applying for sovereignty in Judea is not an insurance certificate against eviction in any way, but it can be seen as a bright spot in light of the darkness of the regulation.

3  construction. Ariel Sharon, the former Knight of the Settlement, passed a law that a new neighborhood in the council or community would be built only after the other neighborhoods were already populated. Conventional land reserves often await the signature of a defense minister who is often miraculous. A standard cottage in Efrat, for example, which cost 1.5 million four years ago, now doubles that until the next time a new construction plan is implemented, the annexation will last. You sign the Minister and release the infrastructure and programs from their political context.

4  stray dogs that scare children and sleep from the eyes of residents in the edge of the neighborhood can be legally treated.

5  And more in the field: If I decide to start an agricultural business, a timeless field of strawberries, for example. The state will be committed to providing me with water! But actually the local authorities in the US do it even when they don't have to; if I open a plant and want to use natural gas, the law will require such a pipeline installation, which will help develop a modern industry in the area that will provide employment for both Israelis and Palestinians! Nice. If the area and the wastewater contaminate the area, the laws of the rest of the environment can be enforced. 

But, in fact, these are issues that affect us mainly because they exist in the territories of the Palestinian Authority, which will not be required to be addressed even after the application of sovereignty; But Jewish buses that pollute the air above the permissible can finally be fined.

6  Did you say fine? You said the bag law. True, Rami Levy at the bloc junction already charges 10 pennies per bag without being obliged, but in the small writers and the old containers in the localities the option has not yet been adopted. They will now have to align with the general nylon tax. 

7  I'm sick of vintage, anyone who visits me will testify. However, I have never robbed antiquities in Judea and Samaria despite thousands of sites that I could theoretically visit while disguising Moshe Dayan and making my home. And destroying antiques every day even though it is under Israeli sovereignty.

In conclusion: The State of Israel is facing a historic proposal. Since June 1967, we have not made a positive decision for ourselves, a decision that has a vision and a declaration with a clear message to the world, to the Palestinians, to the court, to ourselves. Is it that when we transmit grip and security in Judea and Samaria with one hand, and with the other hand, allow the payment of salaries to terrorists and assaults on the Gaza envelope - does it mean sovereignty? 

I live in a relatively simple area, excellent quality of life even without the real estate relief I mentioned, good neighborly relations with the Palestinians expecting the new law in Hadva, and an hour's drive to Tel Aviv. The statement that Judah and Samaria are an integral part of the State of Israel is important, Many outside the sovereignty area, in which case the biggest impact of the law would be teaching staff who live in Carmi Tzur and find it difficult to get to work in Gush Etzion, and my fear of traveling to Be'er Sheva via Mount Hebron.