TOI reports that a Right-wing minister announced Wednesday that he will advance legislation to make Zionism a “guiding and crucial value” in government decision-making, in an effort to put the tenets of the contentious Jewish Nation-State Law into practice.

Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf said the measure, which he billed as “historic,” would come up for a vote when the cabinet convenes Sunday for its weekly meeting, the agenda of which is due to be released Thursday but has yet to be set.

“We will continue to wave the flag of Zionism, for settlement and security,” Wasserlauf, a member of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s ultranationalist Otzma Yehudit party, said in a statement.

He also asserted the bill would allow the government “to give preference to IDF soldiers and veterans of the army, strengthen the Jewish nation’s bond to its land and strengthen the Negev, Galilee and Judea and Samaria.”

“The following values express the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in the Land of Israel, among then settlement, security, culture, and Aliyah, as has been recognized, among others, in the Balfour Declaration and the Declaration of Independence, and anchored in the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” the text reads.

“The goal of the government decision is to instruct all officials and branches of the government, to give — as part of the considerations included when setting and implementing policy — meaningful consideration to Zionist values,” it adds.

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