Defense

Ben Gvir Backs Judea-Samaria Enforcement Transfer, Demands Detention Powers

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of a defense consultation: Defense Minister Israel Katz sits in the foreground at the right of the frame in a dark zip-up jacket over an open-collared shirt, looking ahead from a high-backed leather chair, while a senior IDF officer in olive uniform sits behind him to the left with his hands resting on a wood-panelled table, a water glass standing at the table's edge in the lower left corner and a blue-and-white Israeli flag hanging in folds against the pa

Defense Minister Israel Katz directed the IDF to submit within two weeks a plan moving civilian law enforcement in Judea and Samaria from the military to the Israel Police. He set the direction in a security discussion with Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, saying it would free the IDF to focus on counterterrorism and defending communities. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir accepted the call, calling it a significant step toward sovereignty. He conditioned it on transferring the Judea and Samaria Border Police to the police under the coalition agreement, and on moving administrative detention and restriction powers to his ministry.

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