Prime Minister Netanyahu has formulated a list of economic benefits for the Palestinian Authority and will bring them to the security cabinet meeting on Sunday for approval.
The main step to be included in the package of goodwill gestures intended to ease bureaucratic issues for Palestinian Arabs is additional hours during which the Allenby bridge to Jordan is open and improvement of conditions at the main checkpoints between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Netanyahu will also ask the ministers to authorize increased development of a number of industrial zones in Palestinian Authority locales.
The political echelon has stressed that there is no intention to offer any other gestures beyond those which the cabinet approves.
On Monday the Prime Minister will present the gestures to President Trump when he visits Israel. The list of goodwill gestures does not include a freeze on construction in Judea and Samaria.
A Channel 2 report stated that Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon met Wednesday with his PA counterpart Shoukri Bashara in order to discuss a number of economic issues which the Palestinians intend to promote., such as the opening of the Allenby bridge at all hours of the day and precipitating the development of industrial zones near Jenin and Hevron.
Netanyahu said later at a Betar event: "My policy and my government's policy is to maintain military power, together with political forcefulness. You know that I often appear before the leaders of the world, but I never bow my head. My heart is not full of pride but I do not think that I need to bow my head because I like you, carry the spirit of Betar and the Irgun within me."
Betar is an acronym for "The covenant of Joseph Trumpeldor," a pre-state Revisionist organization which was the forerunner of the Irgun founded by Menahem Begin and which preached Ze'ev Jabotinsky's ideas of developing Jewish pride and strength. Trumpeldor was a famed hero of the Galilee who died in 1920 defending the northern settlement of Tel Hai and coined the phrase: "It is good to die for our country."