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“Substantively, it’s not that big an issue. We’re not talking about a big defensive settlement, but in politics, symbols often are more important than substance,” said Yechiel Leiter, senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum.
The incident was part of nightly riots that have been ongoing for months with the aim of forcing the complete evacuation of the site.
Fifty-three families had moved into the settlement, erected in response to the killing of a 19-year-old student in a drive-by shooting.
The compromise agreement, which has not been formalized yet, would allow for the placement of an army base at the site, and eventually the opening of a yeshiva.
Home to 30 families, it was recently re-established as a response by activists to the May 2 drive-by shooting by an Arab terrorist that claimed the life of 19-year-old yeshivah student Yehuda Guetta.
