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Ireland's parliament passes bill banning imports from Israeli settlements

This makes Ireland the first EU member state to implement such a ban; however, Spain notably started applying restrictions on imports from Israeli settlements in October 2025.

PROTESTERS CALL on the Irish government to impose sanctions on Israel, in Dublin, last month. Over the years, Ireland has taken a more anti-Israel position than most European or Western nations, states the writer.
Bezalel Smotrich

The Association for Civil Rights petitions against the tax benefits law for settlements

AN AERIAL view shows the Cave of the Patriarchs, a site sacred to Jews and Muslims, in the city of Hebron, November 2, 2020.

Smotrich claims historic Hebron shift as Israel advances new building plans

A view of the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank, Jan. 28, 2020.

Southern District Committee approves plan submission for new settlement, named after Oct. 7 soldier


On US election eve, MKs say Netanyahu must act now to legalize outposts

Right-wing parliamentarians worry a change in US leadership may doom West Bank outposts • settlers living there are the "last line in our fighting against the Palestinian takeover of Area C"

MK Gideon Saar signs a declaration demanding that Netanyahu authorize West Bank outposts

Bezeq operating license for Area C formalized after 36 years

Settler housing approval in Beit El 'meaningless' unless army base moved.

The logo of Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd, the country's largest telecom group, is seen outside their headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel June 21, 2017.

Five European nations condemn Israeli approval of 5,288 new settler homes

They called for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which demands that Israel return to the pre-1967 lines.

EUROPEAN HIGH Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell attends a news conference earlier this month in Brussels, Belgium.

Israel pushes forward with plans for 2,166 settler homes in West Bank

Until Wednesday, settlers had feared that settlement plans would also be frozen, but the advancement of plans assuaged some of those fears.

A general view picture shows the Israeli settlement of Efrat (L) in the Gush Etzion settlement block as Bethlehem is seen in the background, January 28, 2020

Can Netanyahu trade halting annexation for erasing the ’67 line?

Netanyahu urged patience for the process to play itself out. Then he shored up his speech with some shoe leather politics.

Israeli youth demonstrate as they call on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare sovereignty over Israel's settlements in the West Bank, in Jerusalem February 13, 2020

Hamas media, Qatar’s Al-Jazeera call Israel’s Kiryat Gat a 'settlement'

Israeli plane that flew to Abu Dhabi was named for the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat.

Kiryat Gat

Peace Now warns of de facto annexation as E1 planning

The E1 project was first advanced by former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and then frozen as a result of US and international pressure.

Ir Amim researcher Aviv Tatarsky on the E1 hilltop.

Illegal building at Einot Anar must be razed after Settlement Law voided

In light of that annulment the state informed the court on June 24, that it would now demand the dismantlement of the illegal construction within 90 days.

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Settlers ramp up protests ahead of Washington sovereignty parley

Jordanian and Egyptian foreign ministers affirm their opposition to annexation.

Yesha Council leaders at the protest tent outside the Prime Minister's Office.

Dichter: Trump map worrisome, settlements should be annexed

Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz, who hosted Dichter, told him that “We must safeguard the settlements, and they in turn will safeguard us.”

Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz and Likud MK Avi Dichter.