Data shows an increase in the number of Israeli settlers leaving the occupied territories, even before Tel Aviv's ongoing genocidal war in the besieged Gaza Strip.
In a report on Monday, the Ynet news website cited figures from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), revealing a surge in the number of Israeli settlers choosing to live outside the occupied territories, even before the occupying regime launched its brutal war in Gaza on October 7 last year.
The Shoresh Institution, defined as an independent policy research center focusing on Israel’s primary socioeconomic challenges, citing data from the CBS, also reported that the increase stands at 42 percent for Israeli settlers choosing to live in other parts of the world outside of the occupied territories.
According to the report, the surge occurred primarily in the months after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's current coalition came to power and during his so-called legislative reforms aimed at altering the balance of power between the branches of the regime, with 24,900 leaving compared to 17,520.
Through the reforms, now shelved, Netanyahu sought to enfeeble the regime's supreme court by robbing it of the power to strike down either the cabinet or the legislature's decisions.