Facing uproar, Netanyahu announces ‘mega-plan’ for Israel’s battered north

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday allocations of 13 billion shekels (more than $4.5 billion) to secure and develop northern communities along the Lebanon border, battered by weeks of fire from Iran-backed Hezbollah. “The government made dramatic decisions today to strengthen the north. We are investing more than 13 billion shekels today, in addition to the seven billion we have already provided — a total of 20 billion shekels going to the communities of the north,” Netanyahu said following the government’s approval of the measure.

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