According to the most recent statistics, the number of residents of areas throughout Yehuda and Shomron has passed the 350,000 mark, now reported at 350,143, Yisrael HaYom reports based on Interior Ministry figures. This number does not include residents of northern Yerushalayim neighborhoods such as N’vei Yaakov, Pisgat Ze’ev, Ramat Eshkol, and Ramot or in the southern capital, Armon HaNatziv and Gilo, all viewed as “occupied” by the international community.
15,579 people decided to make their home in one of the communities throughout Yehuda and Shomron in the past 12 months. The city of Ariel is approaching 50,000 residents and Maale Adumim has surpassed the 45,000 mark. There are 22,000 residents in Gush Etzion. The number of residents outside these major settlement blocs is 233,000.
In the past 12 years, the population of Yehuda and Shomron has almost doubled, from 190,206 in 2000.
MK (Ichud HaLeumi) Yaakov Katz is quoted by the daily Yisrael HaYom expressing satisfaction, predicting there will be over 400,000 residents before the next general election.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I sure hope the Israeli government is not planning to evict them.
Kein Yearbu!!
These people are not ‘settlers’ anymore than the Arabs in the area are settlers!
The British Balfour declaration gave this area to the Jews as a home land. The Jordanian Army took it from us in 1948. We took it back in 1967. The Arabs are the settler on the land that legally should have been our.
I ask that you not call our Jewish brethren by the derogatory term ‘settler’ rather, refer to the Arabs who came there to take the land illegally as ‘settlers’.
Wouldn’t the international community be surprised to learn that many of these so-called “settlers” pay more than $1200 a month towards the mortgage or rent of their homes?
settlements are communities soo settlers are…
When the West, Europe and America collapse, this will be where most of the refugees will be resettled.
Aryeh Zelasko
Beit Shemesh