Israeli settlement

US bill targeting Israeli settlements in West Bank, Gaza gains 53 co-sponsors

As of this week, the bill has 53 co-sponsors, including high-profile figures such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna.

Jewish settlers pray during Yom Kippur at a settlement outpost northwest of the West Bank city of Nablus, September 21, 2026.
View of the area of the planned E1 project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025

Ma’aleh Adumim challenges A-G opinion to delay approval of new homes in E1 settlement

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee gestures during a press conference after he met residents of Turmus Ayya, a Palestinian town near Ramallah in the West Bank, September 5, 2026.

Huckabee’s West Bank message: Condemn violence, defend truth - editorial

Palestinians use their phones as Israeli settlers and military personnel stand outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.

B'Tselem claims 47 Palestinian families at risk of expulsion, IDF says homes built illegally


Kahlon to summon Amnesty to a hearing over settlement boycott campaign

Amnesty Israel: Government is systematically persecuting human rights activists; revoking tax break won’t hurt us.

Moshe Kahlon

Israel to advance plans for 3,000 homes in the West Bank

Netanyahu has also promised that in September he would give the go-ahead for marketing 300 homes for the Beit El settlement.

BULIDINGS ARE SEEN under construction in the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim [File]

Court freezes law that retroactively legalized unauthorized settler homes

High Court rules law that allows for confiscating Palestinian property for compensation must be debated, also freezes some evictions of unauthorized Israeli outposts.

West Bank outpost.

Israeli enclaves in Palestine – Netanyahu’s proposal to Trump

Netanyahu’s proposal to US President Donald Trump, it must be assumed that first is has to be part of a full, comprehensive peace agreement which will establish an independent Palestinian state.

A MAN sits on a fence in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. Those successfully scaling the fence are entitled to apply for asylum.

Haredi MK Gafni recalls party's historic support of evacuating settlements

The letter is dated April 18, 1978, when Begin was negotiating peace with Egypt, which involved returning Sinai to Egypt and evacuating Yamit.

Moshe Gafni

Politicians challenge Netanyahu to rebuild destroyed settlements

The four West Bank settlements were dismantled during the 2005 Disengagement plan.

On the ruins of the former Sa-Nur settlement.

Netanyahu: 'We’re connecting the Beitar Illit settlement to Jerusalem'

“There is no government that does more for the settlement in the land of Israel, then this government under my leadership," says Netanyahu.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speeks at Beitar Illit August 3, 2017.

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.

Analysis: Is Netanyahu softening on annexation?

Since he was elected to the premiership in 2009 and declared his support for a Palestinian state, Netanyahu has walked a careful diplomatic tightrope.

THE SETTLEMENT of Efrat in Gush Etzion. Nothing can change the Obama administration’s mind that settlements are the primary cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the author argues.

Not your ‘typical settler’: Secular settlers speak out

‘Guys with “peyot” and bearded faces are much more photogenic than a guy without a beard who speaks Hebrew that everyone can understand’

Ran Segal