Moshe Feiglin: Israel Must Regain Sovereignty Over Negev Land

As the only member of the government coalition who, from the very start, voted against the Prawer Plan to regulate Bedouin land ownership, I congratulate former Minister Benny Begin and the government of Israel on their decision to scrap the bill. The State of Israel must now announce that the forty year opportunity that it gave to the Bedouins to prove their claims of land ownership in the Negev are over. From now on, those lands will return to the exclusive and full sovereignty of the State of Israel. The State of Israel must develop those lands and market them in the entire Negev to all citizens interested in purchasing them - Bedouins and Jews alike.