"Israel Today" has learned that starting next month, security funding will be stopped in many localities in Gush Adumim.
This is after the financing in Founders' Hill was canceled last month.
Initially, security will be removed in Alon, Kfar Adumim and Nofei Prat, and later in Kedar.
After the completion of the move, only Beit Horon will remain, out of 13 settlements in the Jerusalem Envelope, which the IDF will continue to fund the security guards at its entrance.
In 2006, the government decided to transfer security responsibility for the Jerusalem Envelope settlements from the IDF to the Border Police, and it was agreed to settle the issue in joint staff work within three months, with the IDF remaining responsible for its completion. Security for localities, but the money is in the hands of the IDF and the Ministry of Defense. Over the years, the erosion in the security components of the surrounding localities has expanded.
A few years ago, the National Security Headquarters recommended that the budget for security components in the surrounding localities be transferred to the police by the end of 2019, but the work of the headquarters between the police and the IDF mediated by the National Security Council has not been completed.
"Israel Today" has learned that the police have prepared a document detailing all budgetary needs - NIS 50 million a year for the security components in the surrounding localities - but inquiries on the subject from the head of the police planning department and the director general of the Ministry of Internal Security have not progressed. "To.
Gush Adumim localities, Photo: Kfar Adumim Security Department
Those who suffer from the vacuum are the envelope settlements.
Sources in the police criticize the IDF's conduct and the cuts it has made, and the settlement also criticizes the situation. A senior source says: "The needs for settlement have changed, and the army's standards do not correspond to reality.
The police also had to shout. "Another source says:" Everyone shook off the issue - the National Security Council, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Security. "
In Alon, Kfar Adumim and Nofei Prat, they announced that starting next month, the gates of the settlements will remain open without security at the entrance, as a sign of protest.
Kfar Adumim's chief of staff, Avichai Shorashan, says:
We are simply abandoned.
We have a large educational institution for the residents of the area.
How do we secure it?
We have been falling between the chairs for two decades. "
The IDF spokesman responded: "According to the assessment of the situation, it was decided that some of the security facilities would be diverted to other missions in the ongoing defense in the localities.
The security forces in the area will gather together with the localities to build new defense plans in accordance with the new situation, in order to provide an optimal defense response.
"The IDF will continue to provide a response in accordance with operational needs."
Sources in the National Security Council explained that the National Security Council's proposal was supposed to be presented for government approval during 2019, but due to the political instability in the country it was rejected.
"Now that the new budget has been approved, the staff's work has been renewed and a new decision proposal will be formulated later, which will be submitted to the government for approval," the National Security Council answered the question "Israel Today" - but did not specify a timetable for its completion.
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