{"id":138378,"date":"2025-11-17T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/138378\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:05:07","slug":"netanyahu-unveils-300-acre-lod-golf-course-honoring-trump-amid-city-expansion-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/138378\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu unveils 300-acre Lod golf course honoring Trump amid city expansion plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a ceremony in Lod on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the city will build a golf course spanning 1,200 dunams (about 300 acres) near Ginton that will be named in honor of U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu appeared at the event to mark the expansion of Lod\u2019s second housing-development agreement with the state. He did not address two contentious issues dominating the national agenda: the expected UN Security Council vote on a U.S. proposal that includes a \u201cpathway to a Palestinian state\u201d and the government\u2019s decision, revealed by ynet, to form a non-state commission of inquiry into the Oct. 7 massacre.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu focused on Lod\u2019s growth and then on rising crime in the Arab community. \u201cThe crime in the Arab public is a crime,\u201d he said. \u201cWe must overcome it and we are working on it constantly. We succeeded in overcoming several obstacles, one of them being the legal advisers.\u201d<\/p>\n

City council member Michal Hen Sufir interrupted him, saying old Lod \u201cis becoming an enclave of crime\u201d and that investment flows to newer neighborhoods instead of older areas that have endured decades of neglect. She said the lack of community centers and educational services leaves mainly \u201cthe elderly and the vulnerable.\u201d Netanyahu listened without interrupting, asked her name, and told her, \u201cYou have courage. That is the most important trait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu received applause at the event, standing alongside Mayor Yair Revivo and Likud ministers and lawmakers in what appeared to be the opening shot of a campaign atmosphere. The city\u2019s new agreement allocates 5.8 billion shekels for development, including an expected addition of 21,000 housing units and major investment in the historic core.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich criticized Netanyahu, saying the prime minister \u201cis wasting precious time on unimportant matters.\u201d Minister Haim Katz added, \u201cYes, he is wasting his time in court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smotrich also dismissed the U.S. \u201cpathway\u201d plan ahead of the Security Council vote, saying, \u201cIt will not happen. My life\u2019s mission is to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heart of our land.\u201d National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir told his Otzma Yehudit faction that recent discussion about a Palestinian state \u201cmay receive an additional push\u201d at the UN and said \u201cthe invented people called the Palestinian people cannot be allowed to have a state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a ceremony in Lod on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the city will build a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-138378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}