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.

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

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

Israel sets borders for three recently-legalized West Bank outposts

Construction near Efrat in the West Bank

Israel creates fast track for settlement building, Palestinians cancel meeting


Palestinians charge Israel with confiscating 371 acres in the Jordan Valley

Both US Ambassador Dan Shapiro and US State Department Spokesman John Kirby issued harsh words this week against Israeli settlement activity.

Saeb Erekat, the secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Netanyahu: We will not hand over even ‘one meter’ of land

Channel 2 had reported that Netanyahu had planned as well to hand some portion of that territory over to the Palestinian Authority.

Netanyahu speaks at Likud faction meeting

Plans to build new housing units in east Jerusalem draw German condemnation

The United States has also harshly criticized the decision.

A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in the Har Homa quarter in Jerusalem

Coalition infighting continues over settlement tax benefits

According to MK Gafni, adding the West Bank would cost NIS 600m. out of the amount allotted for the benefits, leaving less for periphery towns.

The West Bank Settlement of Givat Ze'ev

Jewish nationalism and ‘the settlements’

The link between Jewish nationalism and Jewish settlements is crucial.

Tehila Makover outside her home in the West Bank outpost of Tekoa D.

Preventing the blaze that could consume us all

The government must take aggressive steps and put in place all the operative and legal measures necessary to act as it would against any type of terrorism.‏

Police arrest Meir Ettinger

Security forces evacuated settler families from Sa-Nur

In 2005 Israel razed four settlements in Northern Sa-Nur along with 21 communities in Gaza.

Activists that have returned to ruins of Sa-Nur  settlement in Samaria which was razed during 2005 disengagement

Israel must be steadfast in protecting its rights and its people

The Jerusalem Post

Danish-Palestinian group to continue campaign against settlements after ads removed from city buses

The advertisements that were removed from 35 of the Danish capitol's public buses featured two woman beside the quote: “Our conscience is clean! We neither buy products from the Israeli settlements nor invest in the settlement industry.”

Danish bus ads targeting products from Israeli settlements.

A view and a point of view

The Jerusalem Post