Israel new settlements

EU foreign ministers condemn Israel's new West Bank E1 settlement plan

The Foreign Ministry "rejects the attempt to impose foreign dictates upon it [Jerusalem]," it said Friday.

AUGUST 22, 2025|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich interacts with a man, on the day of a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, that would split east Jerusalem from the West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, August 14, 2025.

An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Katz: Lack of settlements led to security deterioration in Samaria

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan referred to Judea and Samaria as “Israel’s bulletproof vest.”

MARCH 2, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

Israel sets borders for three recently-legalized West Bank outposts

Two of the new settlements Avigail and Asael are located in the South Hebron Hills while the third, Beit Hogla is in the Megilot region by the Dead Sea.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Construction near Efrat in the West Bank

Israel creates fast track for settlement building, Palestinians cancel meeting

Israeli prime ministers and defense ministers have kept a tight hold on the process to avoid diplomatic and security crises that might arise.

JUNE 18, 2023|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Is there really a settlement construction slowdown?

Settlement leaders voice anger, but Netanyahu says new directives allow for considerable flexibility.

JUNE 28, 2017ByMARK WEISS

A rainbow is seen over the settler outpost of Amona earlier this year

Israel steps up Damascus Gate security following Jerusalem attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Damascus Gate both a symbol of terrorism and the fight against it.

JUNE 23, 2017ByHERB KEINON

BORDER POLICE frisk a Arab man in front of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, the scene of much recent violence.

Netanyahu says Israel starts construction on new West Bank settlement

"The entire public expects of the prime minister not to allow any hostile element, whether they be leftist groups, judicial or clerical bodies, stop the construction," say residents of Amona.

JUNE 20, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

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 illegal West Bank settlement of Amona, in the West Bank June 20, 2017.

Israel’s inelegant options

The conflict should be managed until conditions arise for an agreed-upon solution

JUNE 18, 2017ByYAAKOV AMIDROR

Israel advancing 14,000 Palestinian homes in Area C, right-wing warns

The Council and right-wing politicians are concerned the move will allow that territory to become part of a Palestinian state in any final-status agreement for a two-state solution.

JUNE 14, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, DANIEL J. ROTH