Settlement construction

UK may sanction firms bidding on Israel’s E1 settlement tender, Miliband warns

Businesses and individuals bidding on E1 construction tenders risk “legal and reputational consequences,” Britain’s foreign minister warned, as the deadline for bids ends on Monday.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is seen on the day of a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, near Ma'aleh Adumim in the West Bank, August 14, 2025
 NEWLY ELECTED BRITISH MPs gather in the House of Commons Chamber for a group photo in London.

UK expands sanction powers, enabling action against companies supporting West Bank settlements

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Missions Minister Orit Strock hold a map of the West Bank as they celebrate the Knesset Security Cabinet approval of their NIS1.3M budget to build 34 new settlements throughout the territory.

Israel unveils NIS 1.3 million budget for 34 new West Bank settlements in 'historic' move

AN AERIAL view shows the Cave of the Patriarchs, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims, in the city of Hebron, November 2, 2020.

Smotrich claims historic Hebron shift as Israel advances new building plans


Israel plans NIS 2.8 billion for 20,000 homes in Ma’aleh Adumim

The expansion project is expected to be completed within ten years.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Gov’t to approve budget for first Jewish building in Hebron in 16 years

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said, “We continue to strengthen the settlements in Judea and Samaria with deeds and not with words.”

The Hezkiyahu neighborhood in Hebron, where the new construction will be.

Housing starts in settlements up by 187% in second quarter

The second quarter data in 2018 on housing starts is 66% higher than that of 2017.

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.

Palestinians lash out at U.S. for Israeli settlement activity

“Israel’s latest settlement announcement reaffirms the commitment of the Israeli government to colonization and apartheid,” Erekat said.

Settlement Regulation Law to save homes like in Modiin Illit in the West Bank, 2017

Netanyahu angers settlers by only advancing 1,400 homes

“A nationalist government should be expanding construction and not reducing it,” the YESHA Council said.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Israel to triple size of West Bank settlement Amihai

Since the 1993 Oslo Accords and until the end of the Obama Administration, Israel has largely refrained from creating new settlements.

THE NEWLY built settlement of Amihai seen from the vinyards of Meshek Achiya just north of the Shiloh Valley July 12, 2018

A #throwback to the time when outposts were illegal

His report provided extensive details regarding the collision of government offices with the Binyamin Regional Council in building and providing services to illegal Jewish communities.

PROTESTERS CARRY wooden sticks as they stand on a roof during the evacuation of families from the illegal outpost of Netiv Ha’avot last month.

With Trump as president, why isn’t Netanyahu building more settlements?

“Not one single brick” was Netanyahu’s slogan for whenever settler leaders urged him to approve new construction, a reference to a phrase he heard from Obama in one of their first meetings.

THE NEWLY built settlement of Amihai seen from the vinyards of Meshek Achiya just north of the Shiloh Valley July 12, 2018

Netanyahu delays legalization of 70 settler outposts, politicians charge

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon had promised the international community he would remove the outposts, but Netanyahu has worked to authorize them.

THE OFRA SETTLEMENT is seen from the Amona outpost in the West Bank.

Netanyahu delays legalization of 70 settler outposts, politicians charge

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon had promised the international community he would remove the outposts, but Netanyahu has worked to authorize them.

THE OFRA SETTLEMENT is seen from the Amona outpost in the West Bank.