Realignment plan

This article is about the Israeli convergence plan. For the California prison reform plan, see Public Safety Realignment initiative.

The secret realignment plan, presented by then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Palestinian PM Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in Jerusalem on 16 September 2008 and publicly revealed by Olmert in February 2025.

The Realignment plan (Hebrew: תוכנית ההתכנסות, romanized: Tokhnit Ha'Hitkansot; Arabic: خطة إعادة التنظيم, romanized: Khutat 'Iieadat Altanzim), originally dubbed the convergence plan, was a proposal by Israel to unilaterally disengage from 90% of the West Bank and annex the rest, incorporating most Israeli settlements into Israel. The plan was formulated and introduced to the Israeli public by then acting prime minister, Ehud Olmert, in a number of media interviews during the election campaign for the 17th Knesset in March 2006.

The Convergence Plan was originally scheduled to be implemented within 18 months from early May 2006, but in November 2007, Olmert said that he hoped to implement it within three to four years. Opinion polling found that the proposal was unpopular among the Israeli public.