Ben Gvir defies police and approves wind farm project amidst riots.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir reportedly overruled Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, allowing construction work to continue on a wind farm project in the Golan Heights, despite protests and riots from Druze residents. The police initially ordered the work to be stopped, but later reversed the decision. The Druze community sees the project as a threat to their agrarian way of life and ancestral lands. The plan has angered Druze villagers who see the project as a threat to their agrarian way of life, an encroachment on ancestral lands and a solidification of what they view as Israel’s occupation of the territory.