First daycare buildings approved for Ganim, Kadim since 2004

The Samaria Regional Council has received budget approval for permanent daycare buildings, large, upgraded modular structures, in the communities of Ganim and Kadim in northern Samaria. The funding comes from the Ministry for the Development of the Negev, the Galilee and National Resilience, headed by Minister Yitzchak Wasserlauf.

This is the first government budget for daycare facilities in the renewed communities, and it arrives in the year that the return to northern Samaria became a reality. Thirty families moved into Ganim, where a yeshiva gedolah has also opened, and thirty families moved into Kadim.

With the return to Kadim, all four communities expelled in 2004, Homesh, Sa-Nur, Ganim and Kadim, are now resettled. Seven additional new communities have been established as part of the "Connection Plan" to build 19 communities in northern Samaria, led by the regional council, Amana and the government, on the way to the council's "Million in Samaria" plan.

Kindergartens opened in the communities at the start of the school year. As young families put down roots, the need for early-childhood frameworks has grown. The daycare buildings—large, spacious, upgraded modular structures—are meant to meet that need and allow more families to join. The council secured the budget after several months of joint work with its engineering, education and security departments and with the community committees.

Minister for the Development of the Negev, the Galilee and National Resilience Yitzchak Wasserlauf said: "The return to northern Samaria is the correction of a historic injustice, but our mission doesn't end with returning to the land. We are committed to building strong, growing, thriving settlement here for generations to come. The budget we are transferring for the establishment of daycare centers in Ganim, Kadim and Sa-Nur is another step in anchoring the settlement and creating the conditions that will allow young families to arrive, raise children and put down roots. I bless my friend Yossi Dagan on the partnership and the determined action. We will continue to strengthen, develop and expand the settlement in northern Samaria."

Head of the Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan said: "This is a highly significant announcement, a historic and important step that will tremendously accelerate the growth and expansion of Ganim and Kadim. We returned to northern Samaria in order to build, and we are working together to develop the settlement and the next generation. I thank Minister Yitzchak Wasserlauf, his ministry director-general and the professional team for the tremendous support, and the community committees for their dedicated work. With Hashem's help, we are increasing the pace, and we will open and expand the renewed northern Samaria."