Israeli settler leader Zvi Yehuda Eliasaf started a campaign to establish a naqab in occupied southern Palestine, an area with a large Palestinian population. The campaign follows the Minister of Finance Bezalel Sm otrich Jude's plan not only the occupied West Bank, but also the Naqab and the Galilee, areas with large Palestinian populations. Otrich said that the plan aims to bring an additional million Jews and 40 new plains to the two regions, and to repeat the settlement model of the West Bank on a massive scale.