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Ultimately, Slaughter’s elevation to the role of Solicitor General places an official with a long-standing record of critical positions on Israel into a key governmental advisory post.

This makes Ireland the first EU member state to implement such a ban; however, Spain notably started applying restrictions on imports from Israeli settlements in October 2025.

The petitioners claim that the criteria were artificially tailored while silencing the positions of the Tax Authority and the Budget Department, which opposed the move.

This is the first approval of its kind since the signing of the Hebron Agreement in 1997, under which restrictions related to the Jewish community were subject to approval by the Hebron municipality.

The settlement will be located east of Kibbutz Sa’ad in the Gaza Envelope and will fall under the jurisdiction of the Sdot Negev Regional Council.

Ireland has been drafting the proposed legislation for the last year and has faced pressure from opposition politicians to include a ban on services as well as goods.

Ireland has been preparing a law to curb trade with settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, facing pressure at home to widen the scope of the ban from goods to services.

"Foreign governments will not restrict the right of Jews to live in the land of Israel, and any such call is morally wrong and discriminatory against Jews," Sa'ar said.

"As a firm supporter of the two-state solution, Singapore opposes any unilateral attempts to change facts on the ground through acts which are illegal under international law," it said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, several government officials, and opposition figures condemned the Jewish extremists who rioted in the West Bank on Monday.