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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Settlement Division

Mitzpe Kramim. (Gideon Mermelstein)
August 27, 2020, 9:40 pm
High Court orders razing of outpost homes, but okays legalization of others
Justices approve legal tactic used by AG to legitimize homes built on Palestinian land, but says it can’t apply to Mitzpeh Kramim, because it wasn’t built in good faith
By Jacob Magid
View of caravan houses in the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona on January 16, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)
October 22, 2018, 1:14 pm
For years, taxpayer money reportedly used to fund illegal outposts
Haaretz obtains documents showing the World Zionist Organization Settlement Division facilitated loans for settlers
By Stuart Winer
View of the Jewish outpost of Mitzpe Kramim, June 5, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
August 28, 2018, 10:20 pm
Court okays legalization of West Bank outpost, possibly paving way for more
In precedent setting decision, judges apply ‘market regulation’ tactic to regulate Mitzpe Kramim, where residents were deemed to have built illegally, but in good faith
By Jacob Magid
Jewish Home parliament member Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Israeli parliament on November 16, 2015. Photo by Miriam Alsterl/Flash90
December 24, 2015, 8:23 pm
Controversial bill on settlement funding signed into law
Jewish Home party lauds regulation of WZO settlement division activities; opposition says law aims to fund illegal outposts
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a construction site in Tekoa, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, on September 7, 2014 (Flash90)
July 16, 2015, 11:21 pm
Gov’t reportedly forgives over $100 million in loans to Golan, settlements
Debt forgiveness scheme said to wipe clean debts owed to WZO settlement division
By Tamar Pileggi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacts during a Knesset vote on May 13, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 15, 2015, 1:22 pm
Sworn in and sworn at
It wouldn’t be an important moment in Netanyahu’s new government without an attendant crisis, giving the press yet more ammo to aim at the new-old prime minister
By Joshua Davidovich
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 23, 2014. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Flash90, Pool)
May 15, 2015, 11:28 am
Attorney general challenges budget spike for settlements body
Legal wrangling may force changes to nongovernmental agency that funds and plans West Bank settlements
By ToI Staff
Uri Ariel at the Knesset, May 13, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 14, 2015, 2:10 am
West Bank settlers optimistic over new government
In a narrow ruling coalition, the Jewish Home party is gaining control over the major levers of settlement policy
By Aron Heller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) seen with other members of Knesset, after a Knesset vote on enabling an increase in the number of government ministers, May 11, 2015. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 12, 2015, 2:13 pm
Fat chance against a slim majority?
The two-vote margin of victory for the prime minister’s cabinet expansion measure makes headlines, as do dastardly opposition plans to, you know, oppose him
By Joshua Davidovich
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett shake hands in this image released by Netanyahu's Likud party after the two men announced that they had reached an agreement that would see Jewish Home join a Netanyahu-led coalition, Wednesday, May 6, 2015 (photo credit: new media/Likud)
May 6, 2015, 10:58 pm
With less than 2 hours to spare, Netanyahu secures a coalition
PM informs president he’s clinched a 61-seat government after 11th-hour talks with Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett, expresses hope for an expanded coalition by next week
By ToI Staff
MK Ayelet Shaked (left), seen with Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett during a party meeting at the Knesset. (photo credit: Flash90)
May 6, 2015, 8:54 pm
Netanyahu caves to Jewish Home, finalizing 61-strong coalition
Ayelet Shaked, 39 and two years in politics, set to be justice minister; PM will keep foreign minister’s job open, in hopes of wooing Herzog
By ToI Staff
MK Ayelet Shaked (left), seen with Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett during a party meeting at the Knesset. (photo credit: Flash90)
May 5, 2015, 8:42 pm
Bennett ups his demands, as PM’s coalition-building goes to the wire
With barely 24 hours before Netanyahu must tell the president he has a government, Jewish Home party asks for Justice Ministry
By ToI Staff and Haviv Rettig Gur
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Haim Zach/GPO)
May 5, 2015, 10:20 am
Bennett looking to squeeze 11th-hour coalition concession from Netanyahu
Jewish Home fighting for Justice Ministry, betting on PM’s desperation one day before government-forming deadline
By Haviv Rettig Gur and ToI Staff
Stav Shaffir
April 30, 2015, 1:04 pm
Stav Shaffir
Coming up — more corruption
What will the Jewish Home party do with the Settlement Division and its half-billion shekel budget? It’s a secret
In this June 4, 2012 file photo, Jewish settlers march during a demonstration against the proposed decision to evacuate a West Bank outpost in the Ulpana neighborhood, in the West Bank settlement of Beit El. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit, File)
February 6, 2015, 3:27 am
Furtive settlement financing debated ahead of elections
Labor seeks to dismantle extra-governmental organization that builds beyond Green Line and has seen steady cash infusions
By Daniel Estrin
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