The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee has postponed until Monday its final decision on the establishment of three new settlements on the West Bank which have been challenged by Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin on grounds that they have no security value. Yadin’s appeal against the settlements was to have been taken up today but they are expected to be approved by the full committee despite the delay. Yadin, who heads the Democratic Movement, argued that although the Cabinet approved the settlements for reasons of security, they have neither strategic nor tactical value, being located on an isolated hill in the heart of a heavily Arab populated area.
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