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


Jewish groups 'disappointed' with US vote on settlements

ADL, AJC, JFNA condemn US failure to use its veto power at UNSC.

The United Nations Security Council

Hundreds gather in Jerusalem to protest Supreme Court’s Amona ruling

"We’ve seen Jews expelled from all over the world, and now we come back to our homeland and we continue to expel ourselves from our own homes," says protester.

Demonstrators gather in Jerusalem to protest the Amona ruling.

Security adviser says Liberman stalling Home Front evacuation plans

A spokesman for Liberman strongly denied the allegations, though he declined to give a full different version of events.

Avigdor Liberman speaks at the Saban Forum

Mitzpe Kramim outpost calls on Netanyahu to authorize its homes

“Time is not on our side,” Mitzpe Kramim resident Haim Yamin said on Sunday.

A Jewish man holds his son at a vineyard belonging to Mitzpe Kramim, east of Ramallah in the West Bank

John Kerry and the Two-State Solution

The Jerusalem Post

Reality Check: The settler tail wagging the dog

The settlement movement, as highlighted by Amona, has severely warped the country’s moral compass.

POLICE PREPARE to remove settlers and their supporters from Amona in 2006.

Kerry: 'Israel heading to a place of danger' over settlements

Kerry led an aggressive effort in 2013 and 2014 to bring Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table, but failed.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State John Kerry

Jerusalem's municipality proposes building 500 more housing units

The proposal is the first since the election of Donald Trump, whom Israeli right-wingers expect to be more supportive of settlement building than Barack Obama's administration.

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

Knesset hawks prepare for showdown on controversial outpost bill

Coalition chairman David Bitan obtained Kulanu’s support for the bill in its preliminary reading last Wednesday by promising that clauses seen as defying the court would be removed.

Amona

Settlers vow resistance against demolition of homes

“We’ll stand here like a bulwark!” Amona spokesman Avihai Boaron promised.

ISRAELI POLICEMEN gather in 2006 to remove the outpost of Amona.