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


In Biden slight, Netanyahu publishes controversial Givat Hamatos tender

The Israeli right is looking to Netanyahu to solidify Israel's hold on areas over pre-67 lines in the last months of Trump's presidency.

Plans are under way to build new homes in Givat Hamatos, a diplomatically sensitive area of southeast Jerusalem over the Green Line

Settler housing starts drop 50% under COVID-19

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan has called on Netanyahu to immediately open up the bottleneck on settler building plans.

People work at a construction site in the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near Ramallah in the West Bank July 1, 2020.

Peace Now asks Gantz, Ashkenazi to halt east Jerusalem Givat Hamatos homes

“This is a destructive plan that, if implemented, will fatally block the possibility of creating territorial contiguity between east Jerusalem and Bethlehem,” Peace Now wrote in a letter.

A signpost in the Givat Hamatos section of east Jerusalem

Palestinians: We don’t need permission from Israel to build on our land

“The terms A, B, and C no longer exist because Israel has violated the Oslo Accords.”

Mohammad Shtayyeh gestures during a Palestinian leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank February 20, 2019.

Right in uproar over Netanyahu’s Palestinian building plan

The prime minister “must stop the delusional demands of our great friend [US President Donald Trump]” who, if he is a friend, would understand.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Jared Kushner in Israel

Bezalel Smotrich calls on Netanyahu to debate PA 'takeover' of Area C

Residents of Area C claim that the Palestinian construction in Area B to create agricultural roads for Palestinian farmers is getting dangerously close to their borders.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and MK Bezalel Smotrich

On election eve, Netanyahu advances plans for 4,615 new settler homes

On Thursday the Ministry of Housing and Construction published tenders for 956 new settler homes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants a tree on the outskirts of Elazar in Gush Etzion on January 26, vowing not to uproot settlements in any peace deal

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.

MKs hope West Bank outpost authorization bill will pass this month

MK Bezalel Smotrich submitted a bill on the outposts, which he hopes will come before the Knesset Ministerial Committee this Sunday before it heads on out break on July 18th.

Security forces evict a demonstrator from Netiv Ha’avot on Tuesday

In pictures: A settlement is born

Unveiling the new settlement of Amichai

Israel-German ministerial meetings back on after year hiatus

Disagreements over settlement policy had prevented diplomatic meetings from happening between Israeli and German ministers.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak before a lunch as part of a one day governmental meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, February 16, 2016