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


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.

Netanyahu mulling plan to build 800 settler homes in Har Bracha

“We must be strong in the face of terrorism that afflicts the entire world.”

Relatives and friends carry the body of Itamar Ben Gal during his funeral in the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha in the West Bank, February 6, 2018.

Right-wing leaders: ‘Netanyahu must make Har Bracha a settler city’

If Netanyahu accedes to the demand, it would create a second Israeli city, after Ariel, in Samaria.

Relatives and friends mourn as they stand around the body of Itamar Ben Gal, an Israeli killed in a stabbing attack on February 5, during his funeral in the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha in the West Bank, February 6, 2018.

Israel deserves better than settlement building in revenge for terror

Israel should not set its settlement policy based on a terrorist attack and the tragic outcome. It should decide what it wants based on what is in the country’s best interest.

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

Know Comment: Harnessing anger for smart policy

It’s almost as if Israel has been lulled into a stupor by the intractable nature of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Building homes in Shiloh.

Israeli committee approves 1,122 new West Bank housing units

The approvals come a day after a 35-year-old Israeli father of six was killed in a drive-by attack in the West Bank in what is believed to have been a Palestinian terror attack.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

US Ambassador Friedman tells State Dept. to stop using word 'occupation'

Breaking with US policy, the ambassador claimed that Israeli settlements make up less than 2% of the West Bank.

David Friedman testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, February 16, 2017.

UN exposes Netanyahu’s West Bank settlement building bluff

When it comes to real construction on the ground, building has been down so far this year.

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 approves new Jewish apartment complex in Hebron despite US pressure

The complex will consist of 31 units.

The site of the planned Jewish apartment complex in Hebron, October 2017