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A Palestinian farmer (L) attempts to prevent Israeli settlers from approaching an olive grove being harvested near the Palestinian village of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 29, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)
Government document shows 650 youths living in illegal West Bank outposts
By Jeremy Sharon
Figures come from Settlements Ministry budget allocations for 'at-risk youth' in West Bank, providing settlement municipal authorities with NIS 12M for outpost youth residents
A Palestinian visitor takes a photo at the Roman archeological site in the West Bank town of Sebastia, November. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
June 25, 2026, 2:01 pm
Palestinians warn West Bank antiquities bill designed to expand Israeli control
PA minster says law would bring Israeli civil authority ‘deep inside Palestinian territories,’ as Israeli groups, a Knesset legal adviser, and the IDF warn against consequences
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Settlers assault Peace Now director Lior Amichai at the West Bank's Ein Samiya spring on May 14, 2026. (Screenshot/ Peace NowX : used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 25, 2026, 11:57 am
Left-wing activist, whom settlers shoved on camera, to be questioned under caution
Peace Now says its CEO Lior Amichai now a suspect, while settlers are not; clash took place after tour of West Bank Bedouin hamlet whose residents fled following settler attacks
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
Settlers assault Peace Now director Lior Amichai at the West Bank's Ein Samiya spring on May 14, 2026. (Screenshot/ Peace NowX : used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 14, 2026, 8:30 pm
Settlers assault left-wing activist in West Bank; IDF detains activists instead of attackers
Footage captures two settlers attacking Peace Now director; authorities say they held left-wing activists after receiving report that they were the ones who carried out attack
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
A general view of the newly established Jewish settlement of Yatziv in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank, January 19, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 19, 2026, 4:46 am
Expansion of West Bank rule appears to shift ‘creeping annexation’ into higher gear
As government makes it easier to purchase property and for state to take control of lands, both critics and boosters say the idea of Israel’s control being temporary is a thing of the past
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli family is seen at the outpost of Yahish Zion, near the settlement of Psagot, in the West Bank, on February 4, 2026. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
February 8, 2026, 8:35 pm
Security cabinet okays deepened Israeli control of West Bank; Hamas urges ‘escalation’
Katz and Smotrich announce moves to expand Israeli oversight of areas A and B, let Israelis buy land in West Bank, and boost Israeli authority over Tomb of the Patriarchs compound
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
View of the area of the planned E1 project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, seen August 21, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
January 7, 2026, 4:27 am
Last hurdle cleared to start controversial E1 settlement project near Jerusalem
Government issues tender for 3,401 housing units in area east of capital, which both critics and proponents say will effectively block a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank
By AP and ToI Staff
Activists from the Peace Now movement hold a sign reading, 'Stop Jewish terrorism,' at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ariel after police stopped buses that were on their way to a mass olive harvest in support of Palestinians facing attacks by extremist settlers, November 14, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
November 14, 2025, 1:09 pm
Amid settler attacks, police block left-wing activists from West Bank olive harvest
After area around the Palestinian village of Burin declared a closed military zone, hundreds of activists stage impromptu protest in the road against unchecked settler violence
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
New buildings at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
November 9, 2025, 3:29 pm
Tenders for record number of West Bank settlement housing units published in 2025
Some 5,667 housing units will be built when the tenders are awarded, will house 25,000 residents; previous high was in 2018 when tenders for just over 3,800 homes were published
By Jeremy Sharon
David Tartakover, renowned graphic designer and artist who died on July 29, 2025 (Courtesy)
July 29, 2025, 8:37 pm
Renowned designer, political activist David Tartakover dies at 81
Israeli artist, who was best known for his Shalom and Peace Now emblems, taught a generation of future designers
By Jessica Steinberg
New recruits in the police's West Bank 'First Response' civilian squads attend a ceremony inaugurating unit's launch at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Hebron, on July 9, 2025. (Screenshot/Israel Police)
July 10, 2025, 4:44 pm
Police recruit settlers for new West Bank civilian enforcement squads
Settlement watchdogs warn new unit will worsen attacks on Palestinians as Ben Gvir touts quasi-police squads, saying they reflect a new ‘combative mindset’ among Israelis
By Charlie Summers and Jeremy Sharon
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Bloomberg, June 10, 2025. (Screen capture via YouTube)
June 10, 2025, 10:06 pm
US envoy: ‘No room’ for Palestinian state in West Bank under current conditions
Huckabee says he doesn’t think two-state solution is among Washington’s policy goals, floats carving a state for Palestinians out of existing Muslim countries
By Lazar Berman, Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 13, 2025, 12:50 pm
Cabinet approves West Bank land registration process to ‘strengthen Jewish settlement’
Move designed to register land ownership in Area C of West Bank; Smotrich says act will enable settlement development, and is part of ‘de facto sovereignty revolution’
By Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich visits the illegal farming outpost of Mishkenot Harel in the central West Bank on December 29, 2024 (Office of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich)
March 6, 2025, 6:18 pm
West Bank illegal outposts, land appropriation hit record high in 2024 — watchdog
Left-wing Peace Now says government has completed groundwork for ‘de facto annexation of West Bank,’ after key administrative powers are transferred from IDF to civilian official
By Jeremy Sharon
View of Efrat and its surroundings on a winter day, in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank on January 18, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
February 17, 2025, 11:06 am
Watchdog says plans advancing for nearly 1,000 more settler homes in West Bank
Peace Now accuses government of operating ‘on steroids’ to establish facts on the ground even as hostages languish in captivity in Gaza
By AP and ToI Staff
View of the Israeli outpost of Shvut Rachel, in the West Bank, January 30, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
February 4, 2025, 10:08 pm
High Court orders police to investigate assistance to illegal settlement outposts
Ruling responds to seven-year-old petition alleging settlement municipal authorities provide substantive, unlawful support for construction of outposts
By Jeremy Sharon
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