Ammon News - A report by the Hebrew newspaper "Calcalist" revealed unprecedented plans being carried out by the Israeli occupation following the fears of the Ministries of Defense and Settlement regarding a scenario described as nightmare, related to a breach across the Jordanian border.

The plans include a new ultra-Orthodox city near Jericho, dozens of isolated farms, Nahal nuclear power plants and pre-military training camps, the consolidation of existing settlements and the construction of new ones, training young men to carry weapons and a huge barrier costing billions of shekels.

The newspaper said that these are unprecedented plans that will drain more than 10 billion shekels in the coming years in the Jordan Valley and Wadi Araba settlements.

About two months ago, and after a delay of about 15 years, work began on the ground to build the security barrier along the eastern border, about 500 kilometers, from the Samar Sands in the south to the border triangle of Israel, Jordan, and Syria in the north, with a total investment of about 5.5 billion shekels, according to Calcalist.

Calcalist has learned that the Defense and Settlement Ministries intend to submit to the government for approval in the coming weeks a huge NIS 5 billion plan to increase Jewish settlement along the country's long border. At the heart of it is the establishment of new settlements and the expansion of existing ones in order to increase the Jewish population, which currently stands at about 42,000 people, to about 100,000 people within a decade. Also on the agenda is a new Haredi city, which is planned to be built north of Jericho.

The new city will be called Tamara, and on Thursday the Interior Ministry granted it the symbol of a settlement, a process that expresses the state’s official recognition of it, so that entities such as the Israel Electric Corporation, Israel's national water company and Israel Post must treat it as a city and for all intents and purposes.

In the first phase, about 3,000 to 4,000 housing units will be built there.

According to a senior official in the Settlement Ministry, "Agreements have been reached with the Finance Ministry on the necessary budgetary framework, and the other government ministries that are supposed to take part in the plan are harnessed to the effort.

The details of the plan indicate that the state will invest about a billion shekels each year in the development of the valley and the Arava over the next five years.

The Defense and Settlement Ministries are talking about Nahal nuclei, communes of volunteers who have completed a year of service in pre-military preparatory schools and Haredi Seder yeshivahs that will be located in the desolate spaces between Highway 90 and the thicket of the Jordan River.

In the absence of enough soldiers, the state expects that volunteers in a year of service ("shinshinim") and students of the Haredi Hesder yeshiva, who are supposed to come and drive a stake in one of the points to which they will be sent, will be a first-responding force to any infiltration in the sector that will be defined for them.

The threats from the eastern border only intensified on October 7, and the idea is to create a situation in which anyone who infiltrates from Jordan will very quickly encounter an Israeli army, said a security source.

Kobi Blitstein, the deputy director general of the Ministry of Defense, who is leading the program on behalf of Minister Yisrael Katz, told Calcalist: "We want there to be people along this border who can provide initial response in an emergency.

A few weeks ago, Blitstein put the directors-general of government ministries on a military helicopter for a patrol over the eastern border.

"Since Katz took office, he has marked the strengthening of the eastern border as one of his most important goals," said Blitstein.

Only about two months ago did work begin on the construction of the barrier between Israel and Jordan. It will be about 500 kilometers long and will be built in stages, over several years. The first two sections of the barrier are being built in the valleys and the ravine sector, their total length will be about 80 kilometers. The cost of the entire project is enormous - about 5.5 billion shekels.

The need to close the border with Jordan arose 15 years ago, but budget constraints pushed the multibillion-dollar project to a halt. The October 7 attack in the south, the expansion of smuggling, and fears of a mass invasion forced the Defense Ministry to put the money down.

The fence being erected along the Jordanian border will be eight times longer than the one that surrounded Gaza, according to Calcalist.