World Zionist Organization – Jewish Agency for Israel (Status) Law (Amendment – Regulating the Status of the Settlement Division in Promoting Rural Settlement and in Development Towns) Bill

What does the bill do?

The proposal amends the law on the status of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency. The amendment adds to Section 6 a new subsection providing that the Settlement Division will assist in implementing government policy in promoting rural and urban settlement in national priority areas, including development towns in the Negev and Galilee. The explanatory notes state that today the division's budgets are directed only to the rural space, and the proposal is meant to correct this gap and ensure allocation of resources to urban development towns as well, in order to prevent the out-migration of local residents and new young people.