Israel settlement construction

US denounces Israel's push to advance 3,988 West Bank settler homes

The move helps shore up Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's fragile coalition but will likely anger the Biden Administration.

 US President Biden welcomes Israel's Prime Minister Bennett, in Washington
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

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

In Biden slight, Netanyahu publishes controversial Givat Hamatos tender


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

Settler leader talks West Bank annexation in Washington

“I think the time has come to apply Israeli law in Judea and Samaria.”

Jewish youth hold Israeli flags at the beginning of a rally march in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near Nablus.