Jordan valley settlements

Israel’s top civil service chiefs tour Jordan border to shape five-year eastern front plan

Defense Ministry Director General Amir Baram led an inter-ministerial team to review security, settlement, and infrastructure needs along Jordan's border.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An inter-ministerial directors-general team, led by Defense Ministry Director-General Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Baram with the acting director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office Drorit Steinmetz and Settlement Affairs Ministry Director-General Avi Meir, toured the Jordan border, November 18, 2025.
THE JORDAN VALLEY

Israel expands Jordan Valley footprint as Blinken visits Israel

The classification of the additional state land was authorized by Smotrich, through his role in the Defense Ministry with oversight of the Civil Administration.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A general view of the Givat Hamatos neighborhood is seen in east Jerusalem

Settlers warn of de-facto building freeze following annexation back-track

"We’re being played as if we were a chip on a backgammon board.”

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
The basic error is to treat all the settlements alike

Shaked: Without annexation of settlements, government must not exist

The Sovereignty Movement has issued a statement urging Netanyahu and Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz to include sovereignty in the government’s policy platform.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

Jewish settlers slam Gantz: International community wants us in court

Blue and White leader slammed for saying Israel should coordinate annexation of Jordan Valley with the international community.

JANUARY 21, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A BATTALION exercise in the Jordan Valley.

EU to Israel: Halt razing of Palestinian structures

The EU took particular issue with a new IDF tool to evacuate illegal Palestinian villages, which it adapted from a measure initiated to help destroy settler outposts.

NOVEMBER 27, 2017ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
An EU-funded structure in the West Bank

Coping with a messianic hangover

The worst may be over for the Six Day War’s most improbable casualty – the Israeli consensus

JUNE 18, 2017ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Activists celebrate the 1975 agreement allowing settlement near Sebastia