Settlement construction

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

The new plan will bring the total number of West Bank settlements established under the current government to 103.

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.
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

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is seen walking past haredi lawmaker Yitzhak Goldknopf, at the Prime Minister’s Office in 2023.

Goldknopf protests 'exclusion' of haredi West Bank communities from budget in letter to Netanyahu

A view of the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank, Jan. 28, 2020.

Southern District Committee approves plan submission for new settlement, named after Oct. 7 soldier


New housing site approved for 15 Netiv Ha’avot families

The government has stated that it intends to authorize the outpost, which is located within the boundaries of the Elazar settlement in Gush Etzion.

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

Defense minister: Israel to approve hundreds of new settler homes

Israel is set to approve the construction of nearly 1300 new settler homes in 2018.

Vehicles drive on Highway 443 past the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon

Settlers plan to rebuild demolished outpost shack after rowdy protest

Police and IDF spokespeople said that there were no arrests during the evacuation, which was carried out as planned with little violence.

Gush Etzion

Attorney General’s move on settlements: shifting but no game-changer

Will Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit’s legal opinion permitting the use of private Palestinian land lead to the approval of the Settlements Regulation Law?

 building cranes in the Beitar Illit settlement August 17

Elkin: Start preparing for one million settlers in the West Bank

Dropping a word of Arabic slang, Elkin also dismissed the idea of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.

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

Will the Disengagement Law in the northern West Bank be repealed?

Political fights prevent bill that will rebuild settlements.

jewish settlers stands on a house Homesh in 2005 370

Is Israel about to repeal the Disengagement Law in the northern W. Bank?

A legislation pending approval could mean that settlements will be rebuilt in an area that Israelis are barred from today.

Festival and rally at the site of the former Sa-Nur settlement in August.

Editor's Notes: More of the same

The Americans, it seems, don’t want initiatives until they unveil their master plan.

Building homes in Shiloh.

Knesset legal team to court: Israel can selectively legislate for West Bank

The court is adjudicating the constitutionality of legislation that could authorize up to 4,000 illegal settler homes on private Palestinian property in exchange for compensation to the landowners.

Settlements

Liberman: West Bank settlements are necessary for Israel’s defense

Palestinians have insisted that settlement activity is a stumbling block to peace and the US has frowned on such building.

DEFENSE MINISTER Avigdor Liberman participates in a Rosh Hashana toast yesterday in the West Bank settlement of Vered Yeriho.