Israel Land Authority Law (Amendment No. 16) (Allocation of Land to a Local Authority for a Renewable Energy Electricity Generation Facility) Bill

What does the bill do?

The law provides that a local authority ranked 1-5 on the periphery index, which received a balancing grant from the Ministry of Interior in each of the three years preceding the submission of the application, may ask the Israel Land Authority to allocate it land within its jurisdiction for the establishment and operation of a project for producing electricity from renewable energy. It was further provided that the allocation will be made with an exemption from a tender, and that the establishment and operation of the project will be carried out through a private developer to be selected in a public tender. The law further provides that an eligible local authority that has no suitable vacant land within its jurisdiction for the project may, together with an adjacent local authority, request that the land be allocated within the jurisdiction of the adjacent authority, with 80% of the project's profits transferred to the eligible local authority. Provisions were also set regarding payment for the land, the extent of land that may be allocated and publication of the project's details on the website.