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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a plan to 'Judaise' the Negev and Galilee regions, vowing to replicate the settlement-expansion approach he has pursued in the West Bank. The announcement coincides with continuing demolitions of Bedouin homes in Negev villages such as al-Sir, where Israeli authorities have ordered residents to tear down their own houses or face steep state-imposed fees. The plan is likely to intensify concerns among Bedouin and Arab communities in Israel about further land dispossession, extending debates over settlement policy beyond the occupied territories into Israel's own southern and northern regions.