 Using this as justification to secure the Israeli claim to the region, the demonstrators demanded that settlement be initiated in this region.With the support of newly elected Prime Minister Menachem Begin, a residential community was built the following year alongside a military base at a strategically valuable crossroads by residents of nearby Netanya, and with the assistance of the Amana settlement organisation.According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from two nearby Palestinian villages in order to construct Shavei Shomron