Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has taken new steps to institutionalize and entrench a major shift in the country's settlement policy. As the head of a powerful Settlements Administration established within the Defense Ministry, Smotrich is solidifying the expansion policies he has overseen.
While the administrative changes are designed to make the policy shift significantly harder to reverse, a future Israeli government would still retain the legal ability to overturn them.
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