Knesset Advances Legislation to Legalize “Wildcat Outposts” in OPT
The Knesset passed on Wednesday, December 16, a preliminary draft of a bill that would provide government funding to Jewish West Bank settlement outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) that were established without government permission. The so-called “Outposts Law,” initiated by settler and far-right lawmaker MK Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina), passed by a vote of…