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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

Yesha Council

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
A general view shows houses in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, May 10, 2023. (Wisam Hashlamounn/ Flash90)
May 12, 2023, 4:58 pm
Yesha settler umbrella group says over half a million Israelis live in West Bank
Organization says settler population grew 2.2% in 2022, with Modiin Illit, Beitar Illit, Ma’ale Adumim, and Ariel the largest cities
By ToI Staff
An IDF mobile camera unit which will be provided to unauthorized West Bank settlements, along with other security equipment, following a decision by the defense ministry and IDF Central Command. (Courtesy IDF)
September 29, 2022, 11:28 pm
Illegal outposts to begin receiving security assistance from IDF, Defense Ministry
In a significant policy change, unauthorized West Bank settlements will now be eligible to receive security equipment, including mobile information collection and warning systems
By Jeremy Sharon
Former MK Elyakim Haetzni in his home in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron in the West Bank on September 11, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 19, 2022, 12:53 am
Former MK and father of settlement movement Elyakim Haetzni dies aged 96
German-born lawyer arrived in Israel in 1938 after Kristallnacht, settled in Kiryat Arba in 1972, helped found settlement umbrella group and served in Knesset for nationalist party
By Michael Horovitz
Gush Etzion Regional Council Chairman Shlomo Ne'eman attends a press conference of the Yesha Council outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 7, 2022, 3:29 am
Yesha settlement umbrella group appoints Shlomo Ne’eman as new leader
Gush Etzion Regional Council head will replace David Elhayani, who announced resignation in June after losing support among settlers for backing government
By ToI Staff
The Libenson family (from left): baby Yosef Zalman, Israel, Lea, Nathan, and Israel's mother Haya-Rina in the backyard of their new home in the settlement of Neve Daniel, some 15 kilometers south of Jerusalem. (Jeremy Sharon)
September 1, 2022, 5:44 am
Switching conflicts: The Jews leaving Ukraine and Russia for the West Bank
A tiny portion of the 33,000 new immigrants from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus move to settlements, fleeing war and repression to live inside one of the longest geopolitical feuds
By Jeremy Sharon
Former Yesha Council chairman and head of the Jordan Valley Regional Council in the West Bank David Elhayani at a protest tent outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 10, 2022, 8:18 pm
Beleaguered head of key settlement umbrella group announces resignation
Yesha Council chief David Elhayani’s popularity has been low within West Bank settlers’ political leadership, due to his support for Netanyahu rival Sa’ar’s New Hope party
By Jeremy Sharon
David Elhayani, Yesha Council chairman, speaks during a press conference outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 3, 2022, 10:51 am
Likud blasts Yesha council head after he urges party to back settlement bill
As settler leader asks opposition to support renewal of crucial legal measure, Yariv Levin accuses him of doing ‘terrible damage’ to greater settlement enterprise
By Sara Serfaty
This picture taken on May 10, 2022, shows construction work in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze'ev, near Jerusalem. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
May 12, 2022, 4:55 pm
Israel authorizes plans for 4,427 West Bank settlement homes
More than half of units get final approval for construction; interior minister hails retroactive legalization of two outposts as a ‘celebration for the settlement movement’
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, March 27, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 27, 2022, 6:37 pm
Right wing tears into Bennett for using term ‘West Bank’ at Blinken meeting
Yesha Council settlement organization, which premier headed before he went into politics, calls expression a sign of ‘moral decline’; PM’s office says statement was ‘accidental’
By ToI Staff
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