Israel settlement construction

Dreaming of a private house? You’ll have to move beyond the green line

A CBS report for early 2025 shows most new private homes are built in small West Bank towns, while big cities build upward and the dream of a yard and driveway drifts farther from Israel’s center.

New construction of a house.
 US President Biden welcomes Israel's Prime Minister Bennett, in Washington

US denounces Israel's push to advance 3,988 West Bank settler homes

US HOUSE LEAD impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks during the impeachment trial of former US president Donald Trump last week.

73 congressional Democrats to Biden: Call Israeli settlements illegal

HOUSES in the Beit Safafa neighborhood of Jerusalem, near Givat Hamatos.

Israel promotes over 2,000 settler units prior to Biden inauguration


Netanyahu to attend Beitar Illit ceremony for 1,000 new settler homes

The city, the second largest in the West Bank, is in the midst of developing a new hilltop, for which infrastructure has already been completed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem July 30, 2017.

Left-wing NGO petitions court: Jewish signs destroying Palestinian Hebron

“The settlers are trying to use the signs to change the identity of Hebron, erase Palestinian history and pretend we do not exist,” said Hebron resident Issa Amro.

Hebrew signs in the West Bank city of Hebron

Liberman: Palestinian housing plan 'not a prize for terror'

“This program improves security, it is not a prize for terror,” says Defense Minister.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (R) and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan

Is there really a settlement construction slowdown?

Settlement leaders voice anger, but Netanyahu says new directives allow for considerable flexibility.

A rainbow is seen over the settler outpost of Amona earlier this year

‘Israel to freeze marketing of new settler homes in 2017’

Angry politicians threatened to pressure Netanyahu to rescind the decision, which would prevent workers from breaking ground on new housing projects.

Heavy machinery work on a field as they begin construction work of Amichai, a new settlement which will house some 300 Jewish settlers evicted in February from the settlement of Amona, in the West Bank June 20, 2017.

Israel steps up Damascus Gate security following Jerusalem attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Damascus Gate both a symbol of terrorism and the fight against it.

BORDER POLICE frisk a Arab man in front of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, the scene of much recent violence.

Cabinet ministers threaten rebellion over Palestinian building plans

Culture Minister Miri Regev demands thousands of new settlement units.

A Palestinian laborer works on a construction site in the new Palestinian town dubbed Rawabi or "The Hills", near the West Bank city of Ramallah

Defense Minister Liberman debunks settlement freeze claims

Liberman: No government has done more for the settlement enterprise.

Destruction of building in Beit El settlement, July 29, 2015

Defense Minister: Closer than 'ever before' to agreement with Palestinians

Report: Abbas and Netanyahu could hold direct peace talks for the first time in seven years next month in Washington.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Germany in February

Government source: Israel not limiting settlement construction to large blocs

Yitzhar, as seen from a neighboring settlement