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The settlement revolution: How Bezalel Smotrich changed Israel's map for the better - opinion

Since the current government took office at the end of 2022, it has approved the establishment or retroactive legalization of 104 Jewish communities there.

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich attends a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Karmei Yehuda community in the Hebron Hills, Sept. 27.
Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks during Ministerial Statement on Government Direction at the House of Commons in London

What Britain risks by treating Israeli intelligence as a bargaining chip - comment

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich interacts with a man, on the day of a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, that would split east Jerusalem from the West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, August 14, 2025.

EU foreign ministers condemn Israel's new West Bank E1 settlement plan

 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Katz: Lack of settlements led to security deterioration in Samaria


UN: IDF has razed more Palestinian structures this year than all of 2015

Of these, 14 structures, nine of which were residential, were demolished in Beduin encampments in the area of E1, which is within the boundaries of the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement.

EU funded illegal Palestinian Beduin construction in the area of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement.

Netanyahu offers assurances on Hebron homes, but no authorization

The Hebron Jewish community purchased two stone apartment buildings located near the Cave of the Patriarchs from the Palestinian owners.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Palestinians charge Israel with confiscating 371 acres in the Jordan Valley

Both US Ambassador Dan Shapiro and US State Department Spokesman John Kirby issued harsh words this week against Israeli settlement activity.

Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Netanyahu: We will not hand over even ‘one meter’ of land

Channel 2 had reported that Netanyahu had planned as well to hand some portion of that territory over to the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu speaks at Likud faction meeting

Plans to build new housing units in east Jerusalem draw German condemnation

The United States has also harshly criticized the decision.

A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in the Har Homa quarter in Jerusalem

Coalition infighting continues over settlement tax benefits

According to MK Gafni, adding the West Bank would cost NIS 600m. out of the amount allotted for the benefits, leaving less for periphery towns.

The West Bank Settlement of Givat Ze'ev

Jewish nationalism and ‘the settlements’

The link between Jewish nationalism and Jewish settlements is crucial.

Tehila Makover outside her home in the West Bank outpost of Tekoa D.

Preventing the blaze that could consume us all

The government must take aggressive steps and put in place all the operative and legal measures necessary to act as it would against any type of terrorism.‏

Police arrest Meir Ettinger

Security forces evacuated settler families from Sa-Nur

In 2005 Israel razed four settlements in Northern Sa-Nur along with 21 communities in Gaza.

Activists that have returned to ruins of Sa-Nur  settlement in Samaria which was razed during 2005 disengagement

Israel must be steadfast in protecting its rights and its people

The Jerusalem Post