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The Israel Land Authority Council yesterday approved a proposal to update arrangements for solar energy ventures at kibbutzim and moshavim, despite a petition against them by the Association for Distributive Justice. Land for solar farms will be limited, the ventures may not be sub-leased, and no regional discounts will be provided for the solar fields' construction.
The Israel Land Authority said that since there were already several solar energy ventures in the various planning stages, and since the ventures' construction would face difficulties under the new proposal, the council approved provisional directives setting out the rules to allow the ventures to move forward.
The Association for Distributive Justice asserts that the provisional directives include a new arrangement that benefits tycoons, but the High Court of Justice dismissed its petition for an injunction against the directives. The solar farms will generate rental income for Israel's most remote and poorest moshavim and kibbutzim - a fact that the association apparently chooses to ignore.
The directives bans the establishment of solar farms on land contracted for orchards or crops that are not on kibbutz or moshav land.
Israel Land Authority director Benzi Lieberman said, "We hope that the new arrangement will help promote ventures that will better utilize the sun's energy to generate electricity for the good of the environment and the country's people."
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