Published: 9 August 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
State is funding settler institute squatting illegally in Palestinian home (Times of Israel)
The Culture Ministry has been funding an Israeli religious institute whose founders illegally took over a Palestinian home in the central West Bank and have continued to operate at the site under IDF protection for over 15 years.
An investigation into the financials of the Mishpetei Eretz (“laws of the land”) institute revealed that it has received at least NIS 200,000 ($54,786) annually for the past three years from the Culture Ministry, and that, in total, the academy has enjoyed US$214,039 in government funding since 2015.
Israel plans to expand settlement to include illegal outpost (Haaretz)
The state is planning to expand the isolated settlement of Amichai to nearly three times its current size so that it will include the illegal outpost of Adei Ad, Haaretz has learned.
The immediate purpose of the expansion is to turn Adei Ad into a kind of distant neighborhood in Amichai. After the expansion, Amichai will be a large jurisdiction run by settlers in the heart of the West Bank.
Photo: Mishpetei Eretz Institute near the West Bank settlement of Ofra. (Kerem Navot)
