Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a press conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening and said that if given the mandate to do so on Sept. 17, he would seek to apply Israeli sovereignty to settlements.
Netanyahu said that he would wait for the Trump administration to announce its "deal of the century" before announcing any major Israeli policy changes on the status of the settlements.
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"If I am elected, we intend to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea area," Netanyahu said.
"Along with applying sovereignty in the next Knesset, I will present the next government with a broad plan to bolster Jewish settlement in the Jordan Valley and develop infrastructure," the prime minister said.
"We have a historic opportunity," he told the audience.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke to Channel 12 ahead of the conference and called Netanyahu's announcement election posturing and a gambit to sway voters after his proposal to set up cameras at polling stations was scuppered.
