Haaretz/Chaim Levinson
By Haaretz/Chaim Levinson
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Aide Pushing Plan To Avert Diplomatic Pressure on Settlements
Gabi Kadosh, the prime minister’s adviser on settlement issues, is advancing a plan to exempt officially urban settlements from being obliged to publicize tenders for marketing lands. The goal is to reduce the diplomatic pressures that results from publicizing such tenders. In the West Bank, as in Israel, there are two types of communities –…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Pledges To ‘Strengthen Settlement’ in West Bank
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Civil Administration on Sunday night to take the necessary action to allow Jewish settlers back into a contested house in the West Bank city of Hebron. In April 2012, a group of settlers moved into the house, claiming that they had purchased the property, which is located not…
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Fast Forward WZO Allocates 1000 Acres of Palestinian Land to Settlers in Jordan Valley
An internal Civil Administration document confirms a Haaretz report that the World Zionist Organization has allocated to settlers in the Jordan Valley more than 5,000 dunams (1,235 acres) of private Palestinian land located east of the border fence, namely, between that fence and the actual border with the Kingdom of Jordan. This area between the…
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News WZO Spends 110K on Illegal Settlement Without Building Permit
The World Zionist Organization’s Settlement Division has financed NIS 400,000 worth of infrastructure work in the West Bank outpost of Negohot, even though the work was carried out without building permits. Negohot, located in the western Hebron Hills, was built on the ruins of an army outpost in 1998. Over the years, the Housing Ministry…
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Fast Forward Israeli Army Apologizes for Book Saying Non-Jews Aren’t Equal to Jews
The Israel Defense Forces has apologized for publishing a book of religious regulations that states non-Jews do not have equal rights in Israel. The IDF issued the apology on Thursday in a letter to MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz), and said it had halted distribution of the book, which claims that “the concept that non-Jews and…
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