The Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, revealed, on Wednesday, a plan that was launched by the Israeli General Security Service, the Shin Bet, to try to rehabilitate settlers who participate in terrorist activities against the Palestinians.
According to the newspaper, these settlers are residents of West Bank settlements and participate in the attacks on behalf of the "Hills Youth" organization.
It pointed out that the Shin Bet held meetings with rabbis and influential figures among the settlers in the West Bank to try to reach agreements with them to stop their terrorist attacks and remove them from the path that might lead them to arrest.
The newspaper indicated that, in cooperation between the Shin Bet and rabbis, two settlers were dealt with, by shortening the period of administrative detention and finding a rehabilitative alternative for them.
The newspaper pointed out that there are those who oppose this step and consider it tantamount to cooperation in favor of the Shin Bet apparatus, and that there are those who put pressure on the families of some administratively detained settlers not to accept any offer to release them in exchange for their rehabilitation.
An Israeli security official said that the Shin Bet will continue to use administrative detention against settlers who participate in terrorist activities, as necessary, and will continue to conduct dialogue with any party that wants to take care of these settlers and thus prevent them from acting violently, and other alternatives to detention will be found.
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Shin Bet offers to rehabilitate terrorist settlers