Settlement construction

UK may sanction firms bidding on Israel’s E1 settlement tender, Miliband warns

Businesses and individuals bidding on E1 construction tenders risk “legal and reputational consequences,” Britain’s foreign minister warned, as the deadline for bids ends on Monday.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is seen on the day of a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, near Ma'aleh Adumim in the West Bank, August 14, 2025
 NEWLY ELECTED BRITISH MPs gather in the House of Commons Chamber for a group photo in London.

UK expands sanction powers, enabling action against companies supporting West Bank settlements

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Missions Minister Orit Strock hold a map of the West Bank as they celebrate the Knesset Security Cabinet approval of their NIS1.3M budget to build 34 new settlements throughout the territory.

Israel unveils NIS 1.3 million budget for 34 new West Bank settlements in 'historic' move

AN AERIAL view shows the Cave of the Patriarchs, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims, in the city of Hebron, November 2, 2020.

Smotrich claims historic Hebron shift as Israel advances new building plans


Knesset legal team to court: Israel can selectively legislate for West Bank

The court is adjudicating the constitutionality of legislation that could authorize up to 4,000 illegal settler homes on private Palestinian property in exchange for compensation to the landowners.

Settlements

Liberman: West Bank settlements are necessary for Israel’s defense

Palestinians have insisted that settlement activity is a stumbling block to peace and the US has frowned on such building.

DEFENSE MINISTER Avigdor Liberman participates in a Rosh Hashana toast yesterday in the West Bank settlement of Vered Yeriho.

Despite Israel's new settlement plans, construction plummets

"We are building the land and settling it," Netanyahu said.

The basic error is to treat all the settlements alike

MK's controversial plan nixes two-state solution, calls for annexation

The proposed plan rules out a Palestinian state and calls for Israel to take immediate steps to prevent a two-state solution, including annexing all of Judea and Samaria.

Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich hopes to use his powers of persuasion, as in this November 2015 photo, to sell a new right-wing diplomatic plan.

Court: Okay for WIZO Settlement Division to build on behalf of state

Two NGOs protested a law that allows WIZO to skirt around pre-existing legislation.

HOUSES IN the Jewish community of Efrat

IDF registers 216 acres of Jewish land in the West Bank

The fall of the four Gush Etzion kibbutzim and the Arab Legion massacre of 157 residents of the original Kfar Etzion, has become ensconced in the Zionist ideology and is one of foundations for the Jewish return to Judea and Samaria in the last 50 years.

A view from Gush Etzion

Friedman to 'Post': US, Israel of 'same mind' on stopping Iran in Syria

US envoy says Netanyahu and Trump enjoy a "phenomenal" relationship.

US Ambassador David Friedman at the knesset

Settlements Law could authorize 10,000 illegal Palestinian homes

Liberman, who opposes the new law, said “it causes tremendous damage” to the settlement movement because the legislation can also be applied to illegal Palestinian homes.

Avigdor Liberman

Amid constant clashes, wall to be built around Beit El settlement

Israel claims the move is a necessary security measure given regular clashes in nearby Palestinian refugee camp.

Homes in the Beit El settlement, West Bank

Netanyahu bars IDF from evacuating settlers from Hebron home

The left-wing organization Peace Now called on the government to immediately order the Hebron families removal.

IDF soldiers outside of Beit Hamachpela building in Hebron.