After earlier today (Wednesday), planting resumed in the settlement of Moleda in the Negev, in which nine rioters were arrested starting in the morning, the work was stopped.
A source from the Israel Lands Administration told Israel Today that "they applied pressure from above" in order to stop the work today.
According to the same source, this is a project that is estimated to cost more than one hundred million shekels, on the order of about 100,000 seedlings, and the work should have lasted for a year and two months.
Collection of equipment from the planting area in Moleda, Photo: No credit
Earlier this morning, the JNF continued planting preparations for planting in the area of the Moleda settlement in the Negev. Stones at police officers. Later in the day, as mentioned, work on the site was stopped.
The chairman of Religious Zionism, MK Bezalel Smutrich, condemned the decision to stop planting in the Negev on the orders of the government and said that it was a "sad day for the Jewish state. The Israeli government surrendered to the Hamas branch in Israel That this government will not cross in order to survive politically. "
The chairman of the If You Will movement, Matan Peleg, commented on the cessation of planting in the Negev and said:
Between this and total surrender to the Muslim Brotherhood there is nothing and half a thing.
It is an unparalleled disgrace that the State of Israel is giving up in the face of this bullying. "
Ortal Perlman Shmueli and Julie Kate, leaders of the Negev Promotion Forum, said in response to the cessation of planting in the Negev that "the Israeli government's fold in the face of disturbances in the Negev proves once again that terrorism has won. If we lose the Negev, it will be closer than ever. "
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