However Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid has refused to transfer the funds before a cabinet vote on the issue is held, according to the news outlet.
"Unfortunately, even after I obtained an explicit order from the prime minister for the finance minister to fund the relocation [of the base], the finance minister has been refusing, so construction of the houses isn't happening," Construction Minister Uri Ariel was quoted as saying by the news outlet.
Netanyahu allocated the 70 million shekels ($18 million) to build new homes for the settlers who voluntarily vacated a settlement illegally built on Palestinian land in Beit El and were promised new homes in 2012. With all the land around Beit El owned by Palestinians, moving the border police base was the only option.
The news outlet reported that diplomatic and political reasons were behind Netanyahu's reluctance to raise the issue in the Cabinet.
In September Netanyahu cancelled a plan to build 2,500 settlement units in Jerusalem after the US State Department announced that the plans were "counterproductive to Israel's stated goal of a negotiated two-state solution with the Palestinians."
While early October, Palestine worked out a draft UN Security Council resolution that defines strict time limits for Israel to end its occupation and relocate its settlements before November 2016.
Palestinians seek to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, partially occupied by Israel. Palestine designated Jerusalem as its capital and has called on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories it occupied after the 1967 war.
