{"id":206376,"date":"2026-07-14T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/206376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:21:14","slug":"benjamin-netanyahu-backs-budget-to-establish-34-new-west-bank-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/206376\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu backs budget to establish 34 new West Bank settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Knesset Security Cabinet, together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, approved a budget proposal of NIS 1.3 million to establish new Israeli settlements<\/a> in the West Bank on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the decision, 34 new settlements will be established in the near future – nine in the Samaria region, seven in the Binyamin region, four in the Hebron area, seven in the Jordan Valley, six in the Gush Etzion area, and one in the Megilot Regional Council area.<\/p>\n

This will bring the total number of West Bank settlements established under the current government to 103.<\/p>\n

The budget was approved in June, but the details of the plan to build new settlements were only made available to the public on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Smotrich celebrated the announcement and pushed for more settlements.<\/p>\n

“We have made sure that… the establishment of new settlements in Judea and Samaria will not remain on paper, but will take shape and be implemented on the ground.”<\/p>\n

“We are passing one budget decision after another,” Smotrich said. “Budget for roads, for infrastructure, and now also for buildings and caravans.”<\/p>\n

“We will be moving forward with many more settlements this summer,” the finance minister predicted. “There is a huge demand for it.”<\/p>\n

Orit Strock echoed Smotrich’s sentiments, emphasizing the sheer size of the projected building project. “There has never been a Zionist settlement decision of this magnitude in the entire history of [the State of Israel].”<\/p>\n

“Investing in settlement [of the West Bank<\/a>] strengthens our hold throughout Israel and secures our future,” Katz said. “The approved budget will allow us to begin development, establish neighborhoods, and lay infrastructure that will allow families to move in as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n

“The Construction and Housing<\/a> Ministry will work to remove barriers and accelerate the process, so that new settlements can quickly go from the planning phase to reality,” Katz added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anna Barsky and Avi Ashkenazi contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knesset Security Cabinet, together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, approved a budget proposal of NIS 1.3 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[1412,15657,37,10296,51770,14924,6905],"class_list":["post-206376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-haim-katz","tag-israel","tag-orit-strock","tag-settlement-construction","tag-settlements","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116919014693519015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}