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Israeli security forces remove Palestinians and left-wing activists from olive groves during the olive harvest season in the West Bank village of Beita, near Nablus, October 2, 2026. (Flash90)
Katz reportedly seeking to ban pro-Palestinian activists from West Bank during olive harvest
By Jeremy Sharon
Settlement umbrella group says defense minister taking action at its request; IDF, police address illegal outpost farmers; NGO records 109 acts of violence during harvest season
Chairman of the “Together” party and former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 23, 2026, 12:17 pm
Bennett calls to dismantle illegal settlement outposts, draws right-wing leaders’ ire
Head of Together party stresses he’s ‘in favor of legal settlement in Area C,’ but not on Palestinians’ private land or areas A and B, which are to be part of ‘Palestinian autonomy’
By ToI Staff
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
Israeli security forces and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, November 18, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); inset: Aharon Cohen, the victim in the terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction on November 18, 2025. (Courtesy)
November 18, 2025, 5:45 pm
Israeli killed in terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank; 3 others wounded
Victim named as Aharon Cohen, 71; two attackers arrive in car, attempt ramming before exiting to stab people; troops open fire, killing them; woman hit by IDF fire, seriously hurt
By Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a '40-signature' debate at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 15, 2025, 11:24 pm
PM’s far-right allies up in arms over US plan’s offer of path to Palestinian statehood
As Washington weighs selling F-35s to Riyadh, Israel said insisting sale be conditioned on normalization; politicians, settler leaders oppose two-state solution as part of deal
By Sam Sokol
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
October 22, 2025, 6:19 pm
2 West Bank annexation bills get initial nod, with MKs rebelling against PM as Vance visits
Netanyahu’s Likud punishes Edelstein for casting decisive vote, dismisses bill as opposition ‘trolling,’ but also says it is working on creating right conditions for sovereignty
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answers a question, as US President Donald Trump looks on, during a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)
September 29, 2025, 1:26 pm
US signals optimism on Gaza deal, as Netanyahu meets Witkoff, Kushner before Trump
Smotrich sets ‘red lines,’ at odds with demands of PA, Arab states; settlers fret West Bank annexation fading; hostages’ families urge Trump to ‘stand firm’; Hamas says it’s received no proposal
By Jacob Magid, Sam Sokol and Agencies
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answers a question, as US President Donald Trump looks on, during a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)
September 28, 2025, 6:50 am
Far right, settlers urge Netanyahu to defy US and annex West Bank, not end Gaza war
Settler leaders stress decision is Netanyahu’s, not Trump’s, send delegation to US; Ben Gvir, Smotrich warn PM as US truce plan envisions pathway to Palestinian state
By Michael Bachner, Stav Levaton and Nava Freiberg
View of the outpost of Homesh, in the West Bank, on May 29, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 2:09 am
Security cabinet said to secretly okay establishment of 22 new West Bank settlements
Smotrich and Katz reportedly led vote last week to build new communities and legalize existing outposts, including Homesh and Sa-Nur, which were evacuated amid 2005 Gaza withdrawal
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers seen during a military operation at the al-Fara refugee camp near Tubas in the West Bank, August 28, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 15, 2024, 8:51 pm
Settler leaders call for moving Palestinian population in West Bank ‘to combat terror’
Letter from senior settler leaders to security cabinet calls for destruction of ‘every incriminated building’ in West Bank ‘terror centers,’ and restriction on freedom of movement
By Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 26, 2024, 2:01 am
Smotrich says half of Gazans can be ‘encouraged’ to leave within two years
Once the initiative is ‘successfully’ implemented in the Strip, it can be replicated in the West Bank, far-right minister claims, adding that ‘occupying Gaza is not a dirty word’
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich, center, visits the illegal outpost of Evyatar, in the West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
April 21, 2024, 1:33 am
Smotrich said pushing to start legalization process for 68 illegal West Bank outposts
Far-right lawmaker who has authority within Defense Ministry reportedly orders government bodies to lay groundwork for hooking up wildcat ‘young settlements’ to water, power grids
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinians during clashes in the town of Huwara in the West Bank on October 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv/AFP)
February 1, 2024, 9:58 pm
With unprecedented executive order, US sanctions settlers behind ‘intolerable’ violence
First series of financial penalties, travel ban slapped on 4 violent Israeli extremists; move creates tool that could be used to cut off entire settler movement from US financing
By Jacob Magid
View of the Israeli outpost of Shvut Rachel, in the West Bank, January 30, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
December 24, 2023, 9:30 pm
Cabinet allocates NIS 75 million for security needs of illegal settlements
Twenty-two mayors and regional council leaders in the settlements pan failure to approve NIS 150 million in security funds for lawful settlements
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: Travelers at the departure hall of Ben Gurion Airport, April 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 5, 2023, 11:47 pm
US says violent Israeli settlers and Palestinians to be barred from entering
Blinken: Those ‘believed to have been involved’ in such activity won’t receive visas; State Department says list won’t be published; Yesha head: No such thing as ‘settler violence’
By AP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Gush Eztion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne'eman (center) speaks during a press conference with Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan (right) and Binyamin Regional Council head Yisrael Gantz, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 23, 2023, 10:31 pm
To the far-right, ‘leftists’ Netanyahu and Gallant are responsible for terror wave
Having received the government of their dreams that has approved unprecedented West Bank building, settler leaders and their allies struggle to find a scapegoat for violence
By Shalom Yerushalmi
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