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Israeli soldiers surround a building site in the West Bank village of Qusra after it was attacked by settlers, on August 29, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
September 9, 2026, 4:50 pm
As settler violence surges, some ask whether Israel can’t crack down, or simply won’t
With attacks spreading across West Bank, locals and activists describe ‘vague’ orders, political pressure and systemic issues that result in troops punishing Palestinian victims rather than Israeli assailants
By Stav Levaton, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
Author Yossi Klein Halevi joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for this week's What Matters Now. (Shlomit Bard/Flash90)
August 21, 2026, 11:41 am
Yossi Klein Halevi: Why Jewish extremism is so seductive – and dangerous
The author of ‘Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist’ plumbs his personal experiences to share insight into the psyche of those fringe settlers who are lighting up the West Bank
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Yossi Klein Halevi
Education Minister Yoav Kisch speaks at the inauguration of a school for so-called hilltop youth in the West Bank settlement of Beit El, August 4, 2026. (Arye Minkov/Beit El Municipal Council)
August 5, 2026, 1:15 pm
Israel inaugurates first school for extremist so-called hilltop youth in West Bank
Beit El school, one of 4 set to be established, is part of government attempt to incorporate minors living in far-flung illegal farming outposts into education system
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli settlers, top, and Palestinians clash as brush burns along a roadside after Palestinians set it ablaze to prevent the settlers from approaching the West Bank village of Sinjil, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
July 21, 2026, 11:56 am
Report: Cabinet quietly okayed plan to curb settler violence; PM called phenomenon ‘cancer’
Ministers said to have kept March decision — and Netanyahu’s harsh criticism — secret for political reasons; security chiefs wanted it made public
By ToI Staff
A man clears the rubble as writing in Hebrew on the wall reads 'revenge, regards to the arrested, people, wake up,' at one of the West Bank mosques that were vandalized and partly set on fire by Israeli settlers overnight, in the village of Jiljilya, north of Ramallah, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
June 17, 2026, 7:44 pm
Settlers set fire to two West Bank mosques overnight
Graffiti reading ‘Revenge’ and ‘Hi from the Hilltop Youth’ scrawled on mosque damaged by fire in village north of Ramallah; IDF says forces searched for suspects but they fled
By AFP
Illustrative: Israeli security forces clash with hilltop youth as they evacuate and demolish an illegal outpost built near the Jewish settlement of Metzad, east of the Palestinian city of Sa'ir in the southern West Bank on November 17, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
June 15, 2026, 3:24 pm
Government to provide 50-shekel daily stipends for hundreds of hilltop youth – report
NIS 5.5 million ($1.9m) said designated for settler minors, amid effort ostensibly aimed at addressing violent daily attacks against Palestinians by residents of West Bank outposts
By ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 25, 2026, 12:17 pm
Israel’s US envoy says settler violence a ‘stain’ costing the nation friends
‘Where are the rabbis?’ asks Yechiel Leiter; says he’s ‘angry’ at failure to stamp out growing attacks by extremists, while insisting serious efforts are being made to tackle issue
By ToI Staff
Three Jewish suspects, accused of assaulting a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa several days earlier, arrive for a hearing on the extension of their detention at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on December 16, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 16, 2025, 5:14 pm
Court extends detention of 3 suspects in attack on pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa
Police rep said to call suspects in alleged racist attack ‘hilltop youth’; one was reportedly put in administrative detention in the past on suspicion of attacking Palestinians in West Bank
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Jewish settlers at the illegal West Bank outpost of Ramat Migron, September 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 3, 2025, 1:29 pm
Netanyahu said to back recognition of illegal farming outposts in West Bank
PM called for ‘educational tools’ to rehabilitate Jewish youth involved in settler violence, according to document reportedly summarizing high-level meeting on attacks on Palestinians
By ToI Staff
Illustration: Police and Civil Administration official take apart illegal constructions near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, September 4, 2023. (Courtesy/ File)
August 24, 2025, 11:01 pm
Five settlers arrested, accused of ‘acts of terror’ toward security forces
Arrests follow the detention of two other settlers on similar charges during an uptick in far-right violence in the West Bank
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Two Israeli settlers sit outside the home of a Palestinian family in the West Bank village of Mu'arajat al-Sharqiya after breaking in and forcing the family to flee, on July 3, 2025. (Looking the Occupation in the Eye)
July 3, 2025, 6:12 pm
Last two suspects in settler attack on troops and cops released to house arrest
4 others freed earlier this week as prosecutors struggle to file charges in attack on reservists; activists report fresh attack in Jordan Valley, accuse IDF of willful negligence
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Young Jewish protesters throw rocks as Israeli police forces arrive at the illegal outpost of Amona, on February 1, 2017, on the morning of the settlement's evacuation. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 1, 2025, 10:39 pm
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war – against Israel
ToI’s senior analyst on the Labor Party-roots of early settlements and how the post-1967 vision of security and returning to the Land of Israel has been warped
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
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
Israeli settlers captured on security camera footage throwing stones at houses in the Palestinian village of Susya, in the southern West Bank on March 2, 2025. (Screenshot/X)
March 6, 2025, 4:17 pm
Settler extremists said to shatter house windows, cars in West Bank Palestinian village
Footage from Sunday night shows one of a dozen masked assailants shouting ‘Ramadan Kareem’ while hurling rock at a house; residents file police complaint, no arrests yet made
By Charlie Summers
Head of the Judea and Samaria Police District's investigations and intelligence department Commander Avishai Muallem arrives at the Department for Internal Police Investigations in Jerusalem, December 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 2, 2025, 12:29 pm
Senior cop accused of papering over settler attacks arrested again for alleged tampering
Avishai Muallem, being probed for sham investigations of Jewish nationalistic crimes to please Ben Gvir, held for attempts to remove materials from police system
By Jeremy Sharon
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