Passengers on public transportation in Judea and Samaria will not suffer from price increases

Passengers on public transportation in Judea and Samaria will not suffer from price increases like most of the population - as stipulated in the Arrangements Law. Under the law, the Ministry of Finance is expected to cancel the multi-line accumulated benefit.
The ministry justified its decision by "the need to produce a simple and uniform tariff policy instead of the existing tariff system." The differences in tariffs in question are due to a reform that the Ministry of Transportation boasted during the Israel Katz period, which led to the privatization of public transportation clusters (operated by Egged). The result was dozens of different tariffs for individual journeys, depending on the passenger's geographical location.
However, the need to correct the historical distortion created by tariff differences between regions, according to the Ministry of Finance, does not apply to Judea and Samaria, where public transport passengers will still be entitled to a 50% discount, for which the government compensates bus companies operating in the region.
Apart from significant discounts, travelers in Judea and Samaria also enjoy the option of paying in cash - something that other users in the country are not entitled to, and are completely banned (except for the elderly) with the outbreak of the corona. Payment by multi-line was made possible in Judea and Samaria only at the beginning of 2020. Thus, while all the benefits currently available in the peripheral areas will be abolished, bus prices in Judea and Samaria will remain half as low.
The discount in Judea and Samaria, known as the "protection discount", began two decades ago, and is given by purchasing the travel ticket when the destination station is in Judea and Samaria. In response to accusations that the non-cancellation of the benefit is due to political motives, Katz explained a decade ago in a Knesset plenary session that this was due to security reasons - encouraging the use of protected buses over private vehicles. Criticism of the protection scheme: "Why when the bus protection costs more, does this mean that the citizen pays 50%? I understand that the state compensates. I also know the argument that from a security point of view they want people to live there and keep us so they have to pay less. "Facilitate additional populations."
At the same hearing, a representative of the Ministry of Transport claimed that the assumption stemmed from a government decision after "legislation on a post-intifada aid package and all the mess that was there. It's something historic, it's something dictated to the Ministry of Transportation."
The Ministry of Finance has so far not dealt with the correction of tariff differences, and it seems that in the current political situation, in which Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) is the Minister of Finance, this is not very possible.
About a year and a half ago, when the Judea and Samaria area was exempted from the ban on cash payments on buses, the Ministry of Transportation explained following TheMarker's request that "the cancellation of the cash payment caused an increase in prices for residents of Judea and Samaria." This is because it is not possible to receive the unique multi-line payment benefit.