How to encourage youth to enlist for combat service in the IDF and develop the Negev and Galilee? The government's fresh initiative proposes to solve both issues at once. Under the initiative, the say will give land for free to any combat soldier who chooses to settle in the Negev or the Galilee.

The plot, formulated by MK Gila Gamliel (Likud), has reportedly already won the blessing of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Under the plan, a quarter a dunam of land will be given to every combat soldier who completes his army service. The land’s estimated value is about NIS 100,000.