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Amana -- The Settlement Movement

Debris from the ruined homes of Bedouins in the Ein Samia community east of Ramallah, May 2023. (Oren Ziv/+972 Magazine).
April 25, 2025, 1:51 pm
‘No future here’: Bedouin hamlets are erased as residents flee settler harassment
Over 1,000 residents of herding communities in West Bank have been displaced in 2 years; they say they face campaign of theft and violence that authorities either ignore or abet
By Nurit Yohanan
Religious Zionism party party chief Bezalel Smotrich (right) and Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir are seen during a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 19, 2024, 7:39 am
US won’t sanction Smotrich and Ben Gvir before end of Biden’s term — officials
Deeming far-right ministers responsible for destabilizing West Bank, US weighed unprecedented move for months, but ultimately held off, as Trump would likely reverse it
By Jacob Magid
Amana CEO Ze'ev 'Zambish' Hever addresses his settlement group's annual conference in Jerusalem on November 14, 2017. (Courtesy: Yesha Council)
October 15, 2024, 9:28 pm
UK targets top Israeli settlement development group in third batch of sanctions
Other sanctioned organizations include a West Bank yeshiva allegedly promoting ‘violence against non-Jewish people,’ a registered charity, and three illegal outposts
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies
(From L-R) Democratic Camp chairman Nitzan Horwitz, former Meretz MK Mossi Raz, former Peace Now executive director Yariv Oppenheimer and current director Shaqued Morag stand outside an illegal outpost in the central West Bank on July 22, 2019. (Peace Now)
December 31, 2019, 10:44 pm
High Court hampers settlement group’s ability to receive public funds
Interim order will require Israeli municipalities in West Bank to get top legal body’s approval before transferring money to private organization that builds beyond Green Line
By Jacob Magid
Shabtay Bendet then (left) and now
January 12, 2018, 9:31 am
A former settler is bent on dismantling outposts he once toiled to establish
Ex-radical Lubavitcher Shabtay Bendet has left old ideologies behind, but the new Peace Now staffer is still grappling with the life he created on the other side of the fence
By Jacob Magid
A man begs for money near a window display in the center of Jerusalem. October 22, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 28, 2017, 3:17 pm
Follow the (lack of) money
If your husband is a world leader and you need to shake down friends for jewelry, if you have to beg the government to pay to save your kids’ lives, you might be in Israel
By Joshua Davidovich
Amana CEO Ze'ev 'Zambish' Hever addresses his settlement group's annual conference in Jerusalem on November 14, 2017. (Courtesy: Yesha Council)
November 14, 2017, 2:35 pm
Settler leader revels in left’s embrace as proof of his movement’s power
Ze’ev Hever says Labor chief Gabbay’s pledge to retain all settlements demonstrates movement’s ‘increasingly secure place’; sets out goal of a million settlers
By Jacob Magid
The city of Ma'ale Adumim, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2016, 11:57 am
Panama dollars funding West Bank settlements — report
Nonprofit’s money trail said to show groups pouring millions into settlement construction movement
By Stuart Winer
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