Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan accompanied the founding families of the new community Noa for a first visit to the site in northern Samaria, set to be established this summer near the rebuilt Ganim and Kadim settlements. According to Amit Segal (N12), the project marks the first time the Connection plan includes a genuinely new settlement, expanding beyond the restoration of communities razed in the 2005 disengagement.
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan led the founding families of the nascent community Noa on a first tour of the site in northern Samaria Saturday evening, marking a concrete step in the council's Connection (Hitchabrut) plan. The community is slated for establishment this summer near the rebuilt Ganim and Kadim settlements, which were destroyed during the 2005 disengagement.
As The Zioneer reported earlier Saturday (22:22 Jerusalem), the council and the Amana settlement movement had begun preparatory work for Noa. The new development, reported by Amit Segal (N12), is notable because it expands the Connection plan beyond the original goal of re-establishing evacuated settlements to include a genuinely new community — a first in the area since 2005.
The initiative is carried out by the Samaria Regional Council with the support of Ministers Israel Katz and Bezalel Smotrich, and in cooperation with the Amana settlement movement. Noa will be located near the repatriated communities of Ganim and Kadim in northern Samaria. The site visit occurred before the Sabbath, accompanied by Dagan — himself a returnee to the former settlement of Sa-Nur.
Council head Dagan had previously presented the Connection plan at a Washington conference attended by 20 U.S. senators and congressmen, where multiple Republican lawmakers voiced strong support for the program. The project has not yet received final government approval, though the council is proceeding with site preparation.
2 developments
- StrongSamaria council head presents plan for 18 new settlements in northern Samaria at Washington conference, wins congressional support
- StrongSamaria Council moves engineering vehicles to ground to renew settlement of Ganim
- DevelopingGanim Yeshiva reconvenes in evacuated settlement for the first time since disengagement
- DevelopingFirst kindergarten built in Sha-Nur, 21 years after the community was evacuated
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