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Ireland's top lawyer raises legal issues on sanctioning services in Israeli settlements

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.

Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora in Ireland Neale Richmond takes part in the fifth plenary meeting, during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, in Seville, Spain, July 2, 2025
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset, December 2, 2025; illustrative.

Foreign criticism of West Bank settlements 'discriminatory against Jews,' Sa'ar says

Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 27, 2025.

Singapore imposes sanctions, entry bans on four Israeli settlers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 10, 2025

Netanyahu condemns West Bank riots, vows action against Jewish extremists


Israel's destiny is in extending sovereignty to Area C - opinion

On behalf of the Jewish people, past and future, by virtue of historical claims, international law, and civil and humanitarian rights, Israel is entitled to extend sovereignty in Yesha.

THE TOMB of Jesse and Ruth in the city of Hebron.

IDF evacuates Sa-Nur, settler challenge to Netanyahu fails

They demanded that Netanyahu agree to rebuild that settlement and three others in northern Samaria that Israel destroyed in 2005 as part of the Disengagement Plan.

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan with members of the young nucleus now in Shanur.

COVID vaccine: Israel sets up station for Palestinians in east Jerusalem

Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion visited Kfar Aqb, located near the Qalandiya Crossing, to hear the needs of the residents of the neighborhood & take a closer look at the many problems they face.

Jerusalem's Mayor visiting a village in east Jerusalem

Settlers: Israeli jogger attacked by Palestinians near Har Bracha

The victim was transported to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba.

THE HAR Bracha vineyard in the Shomron Hills, one of the areas Harcavi was pleased to help develop

From Trump to Biden; from West Bank annexation to Israeli apartheid

The settlement movement is now almost precisely where it was four years ago and in some ways it is in an even worse position.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden

UK, Egypt warn Israeli settlement activity could harm peace efforts

Plans were advanced just three days before US President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office on January 20.

A general view picture shows a section of Itamar, a Jewish settlement, in the foreground as Nablus is seen in the background, in the West Bank June 15, 2020.

Netanyahu had 11 years to legalize West Bank outposts and failed

Can Gantz be the scapegoat for a 30-year issue?

The Young Settlement Forum's encampment is seen outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu may approve last burst of settler housing plans prior to Biden

The number rises to 12,159 if one includes the advancement of 3,196 homes this year in the highly contentious E1 section of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement.

A view of the West Bank

US to label all of West Bank Area C goods 'made in Israel'

"Goods produced in some areas of the West Bank shall be marked as products of  “West Bank” and goods produced in Gaza shall be marked  as products of  "Gaza."

US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, visit Psagot Winery in the hills north of Jerusalem, last month.

Knesset gives initial approval to legalization of 65 West Bank outposts

The Young Settlements Forum called on Netanyahu and Gantz to shortcut the process by holding a government vote on the matter before the country's heads to a fourth election.

The settlement of Kfar Eldad as seen from above.