Israeli settlement

Are Israeli ‘settlements’ illegal? - opinion

The idea of a “two-state solution,” creating another Palestinian state, in addition to Jordan, is not realistic or practical.

View of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank, April 19, 2026.
Palestinian demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest against US position on Israeli settlements, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 26, 2019.

UK, Canada, France, Norway, Australia, NZ sanction West Bank settler individuals, entities

View of graffiti sprayed by extremist settlers in the village of Jaba, West Bank, November 18, 2025.

Court indicts 18-year-old over alleged racist revenge attack in Palestinian West Bank village

Palestinians inspect livestock damage after settlers were said to have attacked, stealing 40 sheep in Al-Dhahiriya village, south of Hebron, this past week. We must take responsibility and put an end to it, says the writer.

Israel must confront the wider system enabling settler violence - opinion


Bennett to Netanyahu: Save homes in Netiv Ha’avot

Right-wing politicians oppose the home demolitions, but have been hard pressed to offer the residents more than words of support.

Summer rally for the Netiv Ha'avot Outpost in front of the Knesset.

Settlements are legal

The above firmly established in international law the rights of Jews to settle west of the River Jordan, and the rights of Arabs to settle east of the river.

Letters

Grumpy old man: A matter of priorities

If you’re a settler and something’s not the way you want it, remember: No one sent you there.

THE LONGED-FOR Triumph TR3, in British Racing Green

Know comment: Fall reading recommendations

Arab democracy is seen as a dangerous luxury, and they prefer “pragmatic” deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism.

Palestinian youths slinging rocks 521

Israel to clear mines from over 15 acres to expand West Bank settlement

"Instead of landmines which are intended to kill, children will be playing in the streets of the new neighborhood."

The community of Karnei Shomron is seen

Suggestions for solving the Israeli-Palestinians dispute

A positive aspect is that the areas of the enclaves can be expected to be limited compared to the extensive areas of the settlement blocs discussed until now.

A VIEW of the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ramot (foreground) and Ramat Shlomo (background).

US Ambassador Friedman: Israel 'only occupying 2% of the West Bank'

"There was always supposed to be some notion of expansion into the West Bank, but not necessarily expansion into the entire West Bank."

US Ambassador David Friedman at the knesset

High Court president: Judges can't attend settlement ceremony because it is political

Naor decided that no court representative would attend the ceremony which is celebrating the settling of Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights.

Miriam Naor

Who will live and who will die?

If we are to be sovereign for the foreseeable future, our responsibility toward Palestinians under our control increases.

THE BEDUIN encampment of Khan al-Ahmar is seen near Ma’aleh Adumim.

Bible Marathon kicked out of international association for passing through territories

“There is no international law that prohibits running the route of the world’s oldest race because it finishes in Ancient Shiloh.”

RUNNERS PASS through Eli during the 2016 Bible Marathon