Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan revealed that the new settlement Sha-Nur Mizrah, approved by the cabinet last month, is the 19th community in the 'Hitchabrut' (Connection) plan. He said it will be built on the site from which the IDF's Paratroopers Brigade training base was removed, calling it a correction of the expulsion. Dagan stated: 'Who didn't want one Sha-Nur, will get two!'
The announcement by Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan that Sha-Nur Mizrah is the 19th settlement in the 'Hitchabrut' (Connection) plan marks the latest step in the government's ambitious settlement expansion in northern Samaria. The settlement, approved by the cabinet on July 14, is to be built on the site of the former IDF Paratroopers Brigade training base (Baha"h 1), which was evacuated during the 2005 disengagement. Dagan, who himself resettled in the adjacent Sha-Nur area, described the move as a correction of the expulsion.
The Hitchabrut plan, first presented by Dagan at a Washington conference in June, aims to establish 18 new communities in northern Samaria, with Sha-Nur Mizrah now added as the 19th. The cabinet's approval of 34 new settlements across Judea and Samaria, including Sha-Nur Mizrah, was accompanied by a NIS 2.3 billion allocation for strategic expansion. As The Zioneer reported, the Samaria council has already received applications from over 3,000 families wishing to join the new settlement nuclei, indicating strong public interest.
The choice of the former training base site carries symbolic weight: it was the first location removed in the northern Samaria disengagement, preceding the evacuation of four settlements. Dagan's statement that 'who didn't want one Sha-Nur, will get two' underscores the government's determination to reverse the 2005 withdrawal. The approval brings the total number of settlements established under the current government to 104, according to previous reporting.
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