“They take slices of land for this and for that, like cheese,” said Eid Khamis Jahalin, the leader of the community. “The whole industrial zone is not legal, and they are taking grazing land from the Bedouin. Why didn’t they build it, say, in Beersheba or Hadera or Tel Aviv?”

It turns out that land is cheaper in places where you can just steal it. But yeah, there are like dozens of places that would make more sense near population centers. This is for settlers to flex and promote development to western evangelical investors.