Settlement construction

'People will live in the streets': Israel steps up evictions of Palestinians from east Jerusalem

Palestinians seek east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, for a future state and say that leaving their homes there could put an end to their hopes forever.

A Palestinian woman walks past a mural in the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem on January 21, 2026.
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Approved: New settlement to integrate people with disabilities into the community

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024.

Israel must take six punitive measures against PA, Smotrich says

 IDF soldier seen walking between two armored vehicles in Gaza, December 20, 2023.

Israeli commander calls to resettle Gaza, reprimanded by IDF


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Will the Disengagement Law in the northern West Bank be repealed?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

Despite Israel's new settlement plans, construction plummets

"We are building the land and settling it," Netanyahu said.

The basic error is to treat all the settlements alike

MK's controversial plan nixes two-state solution, calls for annexation

The proposed plan rules out a Palestinian state and calls for Israel to take immediate steps to prevent a two-state solution, including annexing all of Judea and Samaria.

Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich hopes to use his powers of persuasion, as in this November 2015 photo, to sell a new right-wing diplomatic plan.

Court: Okay for WIZO Settlement Division to build on behalf of state

Two NGOs protested a law that allows WIZO to skirt around pre-existing legislation.

HOUSES IN the Jewish community of Efrat

IDF registers 216 acres of Jewish land in the West Bank

The fall of the four Gush Etzion kibbutzim and the Arab Legion massacre of 157 residents of the original Kfar Etzion, has become ensconced in the Zionist ideology and is one of foundations for the Jewish return to Judea and Samaria in the last 50 years.

A view from Gush Etzion