Israeli media has almost completely ignored this phenomenon in recent months; Settlers want looser open-fire policy.

After Homesh was evacuated and its houses demolished, the IDF declared it a military zone closed to Israelis; the order hasn't bothered the right-wing organizations, though, as they've been holding rallies on the ruins of Homesh ever since.

Days after Yair Lapid told The New York Times he opposes a freeze on settlement construction, Social Affairs Minister Meir Cohen says some settlements should be evacuated unilaterally.

IDF commanders are instructed to minimize use of live fire in the West Bank, but recent attack triggers settler protest in hope of amending regulations.

Israel has experienced many leadership crises in the past but even in periods of anger, frustration and vast disappointment with the leaders there was still hope.

Jewish settlers in the West Bank are allowed to use live fire to defend their lives or their property, but might the same law also enable Palestinians to act in self-defense?

A new Palestinian initiative seeks to revive the PLO's old-time strategy, abandoned following the Oslo Accords. It includes Israel's Jewish population, but without calling them by name.

Migron, set up in 2002 on private Palestinian land on a hill near Ramallah, was evacuated in 2012, but around 50 prefabricated homes remained intact.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked his EU counterpart Catherine Ashton to put off the move as he tries to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

When Stephen Hawking visited here in 2006 he received the royal treatment; but then he decided to criticize Israel.