An hour before Shabbat, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Galant and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir reached an agreement that the transfer of security authority in the communities surrounding Jerusalem from the IDF to the police would be delayed for thirty days to allow for an examination of the police's level of preparedness for the move.

The transfer of authority, which was first passed in 2006, but in light of a situational assessment by Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and Border Police commander Amir Cohan that the measures required to accept the transfer of authority from the Defense Ministry to the police had not yet been carried out, Ben-Gvir requested that the transfer be delayed by one month.

The settlements that stand at the center of the decision are Ma'ale Adumim, Kfar Adumim, Alon, Nofei Prat, Mount Adar, Mount Gila, Kedar, Anatot (Almon), Gid’on Hahadasha, Givat Ze'ev and Beit Horon. Residents of these communities had hoped that the measure would be frozen so as not to negatively impact their security.

Last week, The Jerusalem Envelope Committee stated that even if the transfer of responsibility to the police is fundamentally correct, "from our point of view, it is being carried out hastily and carelessly, without the required groundwork concerning budgets and standards - and above all, without understanding the task and its implications."

"One example is the firing of our security chiefs and the recruitment of police officers who live in Ma'ale Adumim to replace them but will work an 8.5-hour shift because that's how it works - the rest of the time they will be at least 10 minutes away from here (at times when there are no traffic jams). There are many other examples," the committee said.