West Bank Population

In 1971, the IDF issued an order empowering private contractors to perform searches and seizures, and use “any reasonable measure” to arrest Palestinians.

Munib al-Masri, 82, is the wealthiest Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Hamed will make the move from running the Civil Claims Division in the Defense Ministry, doubtlessly as part of an attempt to improve the West Bank prosecution’s image.

There are those frustrated with the growing nationalism and extremism within Israeli society who pin their hopes on the involvement of the international community.

The 2012 municipal elections, which Hamas boycotted, took place only in the West Bank. Voter turnout stood at 54 percent, much lower than the 75 percent in the 2006 parliamentary elections.

Homes should be built to allow for thousands of new residents to live in all parts of the city, Galant says.

Voting takes place only if multiple lists are submitted, meaning that there might be no voting at all in the majority of locales.

“The idea of carrots and sticks is right and good,” MK Yoav Kisch (Likud) said, “but it cannot be that the carrots harm rule of law and its authority.”

Peace Now: "This is the crossing of a red line and a reversal of previous policies."

Four days into the electricity crisis in Tulkarem, local leaders of Fatah are resigning from their official posts in protest of the arrest of a number of their members.