The Jewish Agency is studying means to assist the relocation of settlers from Sinai to areas not designated for resettlement under present plans. Those plans envisage large scale resettlement in the Negev for Israelis who will be evacuated from Sinai when the Israeli withdrawal is completed in three years.
At a meeting with settlers at Neviot in northern Sinai last week, Jewish Agency representatives were told by some settlement members that they wished to remain together in the future and combine agriculture with sea-shore based tourism as their livelihood. They said they would require assistance to relocate somewhere along the Mediterranean coast. The Jewish Agency representatives promised that their request would be considered as quickly as possible.
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