Israel Cabinet minister on January 16 approved a NIS 110 million ($35.4 million) plan to upgrade the wall of western Jerusalem, which can boost tourism in the country. PM Bennett brought this 5-year plan, and its budget comes from his office and other ten government ministries.
The government is planning to build this wall by encouraging more visits to the site by improving the structure of transportation accessibility, developing new educational programs, and continuing the projects that are already going.
The funds dedicated to the plan were brought by Prime Minister “Naftali Bennett”, which directly comes from the account of the Prime Minister Office and the other sectors such as the ministries of defence, finance, education, culture, sports immigration and science and technology.
The Western Wall is one of the religious walls and most important sites of Jewish people, and millions of people from the world visit this site regularly, Bennett said in his statement.
He added, the cabinet just approved the five-year plan to construct the wall, and it will continue to upgrade the infrastructure of the site, which will help boost the more visitors on the site.
The new plan was not related to the so-called Western Wall compromise, which would see the formalization of a pluralistic prayer pavilion.
Last month, the religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana had decided with Bennett to put off plans to enforce the agreement frozen by the previous government in 2017.
Long a point of conflict between the authorities and Diaspora Jewry, the arrangements which were made will be negotiated between Israel and Diaspora leaders over more than three years and was approved by Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017, comes under pressure from his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners.