In the new report, the Jewish population stats are broken down into towns and regions and detail growth since Dec. 31, 2010.
The annual statistics on the precise number of Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria (AKA the West Bank) have been released by former Knesset Member Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz.
Based on the Population Registry of Israel’s Interior Ministry, there are 406,302 Jews in Judea and Samaria as of December 31, 2015. As clearly stated in the report, the statistics do not include eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem (e.g. Pisgat Zeev, Ramat Shlomo, Ramot, Gilo, Ramat Eshkol, etc.) which are technically part of the West Bank and are home to another approximately 360,000 Jews.
In the special English report released today, the Jewish population stats of Judea and Samaria are broken down into individual towns and regions and show the growth over the last year and 5 years. Since December 31, 2010, the number of Jews in Judea and Samaria has increased by 23.95%.
The English Jewish Population Stats Report for Judea and Samaria is available for free download via the Israel Cadet Trek site of the Bet El pre-IDF Preparatory Academy. Click here to sign up to the email news list and receive the link to the free report.
The Significance of the Report
The significance of the growing number of Jews in Judea and Samaria is enormous, as diplomats, academics and leaders on both sides admit that the “realities on the ground” (i.e. expansion of the Jewish presence in the region) have rendered the Jewish presence there irreversible and block any chances of a Palestinian State ever being established. For example, in a September 2015 speech by UN Peace Process Envoy Robert Serry entitled The Vanishing Prospects for A Two State Solution, he declared:
“The title of my speech, however, doesn’t sound very encouraging or optimistic, but having served for seven years as the UN’s Peace Envoy in Jerusalem I am afraid that I cannot but warn that the Two State Solution is slipping away and that, instead, Israelis and Palestinians are heading towards what I have described as a ‘One State reality’.”
Later in his speech, he explains:
“[Construction in settlements] has fundamentally, and should we add irreversibly, changed realities on the ground with more than 500000 settlers [sic. including the Jews of eastern Jerusalem, the number is closer to 800,000] living nowadays across the 67-lines in what is for them “Judea and Samaria”—the heartland of previous ancient Jewish kingdoms.
Furthermore, the New York Times, in a March 18, 2014 article writes:
“Back home in Ramallah, Mr. Abbas’s own son has been telling him that last chance is already long gone, the negotiations futile. The son, Tareq Abbas, a businessman who has long shied away from politics and spotlights, is part of a swelling cadre of prominent Palestinians advocating instead the creation of a single state stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in which Jews and Arabs would all be citizens with equal rights.
“…President Abbas, in a separate interview last month, said Israel’s continued construction in West Bank settlements made it impossible to convince [his son] Tareq that the two-state solution was still viable.” The article later quotes Tareq Abbas as saying, “Oh, my father, where is your state? I wander everywhere [in the West Bank] and I see [Jewish] blocks everywhere, I see houses everywhere.”
The late Israeli Meretz Party leader Yossi Sarid wrote in a July 27, 2012 Haaretz article:
“[In reference to the settlement movement] “I always convinced myself that what was being done can and will be reversed, and that the long-awaited awakening would surely come. Now it’s too late.
[In response to Meron Benvinisti who wrote 25 years ago that the settlements are irreversible] “I wrote then, ‘There’s no such thing as irreversible. Only death is irreversible.’ He was right. I was blinded and continued to operate on mistaken assumptions… I based my false hopes on common sense… on our ability to stop at any moment and change direction. I was wrong. It’s my fault.
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Hence the need for YS and to expel the enemy honor killers.
the need to prevent jews from settling in YS is so great that absurd things like this take place. Is this a holdover of Yaalons politicies in YS….. liberman should reverse it…… unless he is of the same agenda.
Bear Klein Said:
not at all the devil but definitely not pro zionist and pro settler nor pro annexation.
Bear Klein Said:
have a nice day.
Bear Klein Said:
it does not make me happy that so many in the right wing complain that the foreigners are the problem when it is BB that is the problem. the reason that I must keep exposing daily what BB does is that most of the right wing keep supporting him which to me is absurd because he is the one restricting the jews in C, facilitating the euros and muslims in C…. as long as right wing voters support BB they should not expect anything good in YS and should stop blaming foreigners for what BB is doing.
the judenrat of the shoah also believed they were doing the right thing for the jews they ruled and led on behalf of their nazi masters.
I am not protecting Bibi. I just do not spend my life typing how bad he is all day.
I think there are people better than him and worse. I do not see him as the devil (sorry). I do not agree with many things he does or does not do.
Not trying to talk you out of blasting him daily and all day. If that makes you happy and productive feel free. I believe in free thought, speech and expression.
I need to run as I am wasting may time.
Bear Klein Said:
almost all natural growth in existing settlements… no new settlements in area c created by BB…. what is the land area of C taken up by those major block settlements for which they want to swap? You still avoid the main points related to BB’s rule and lack of new settlements in 8 years.
Do you think its a good thing that he builds nothing new and accepts the euro shepherding of the jews into their proper pens? Before BB there were in the Israeli public discussions and arguments for building new settlements. Since BB there is only discussions and arguments about building in the already existing pens. BB has removed most of area C from the minds and psyche of Israel and focused their dreams on the euro designated pens…. like the euros say “Jews, be happy with the pens we have given you and dont stray beyond where we allow you to live”.
Jews should be demanding their rights to settle at least in all of C from BB, the one who is keeping them from it.
@ Bear Klein:
NormanF Said:
Bear, what do you think of this statement?
Bear Klein Said:
and interestingly you have as yet to rebut any of my assertions… it appears that after having read the report you agree with my position that the growth is in the major blocks and there are NO new settlements outside them since BB arrived.
Bear Klein Said:
beliefs are irrelevant to facts, i stated my understanding of the facts and you have not rebutted my understanding with any contradictory facts.
Bear Klein Said:
nice one, just what BB wants to hear…… however, didnt you notice that the growth is very small outside the major blocks and that BB created NO NEW SETTLEMENTS OUTSIDE THE MAJOR BLOCKS IN 8 YEARS?
Bear Klein Said:
NO, not when a man who sucked up the right wing votes ended up being an obstructor of new settlement for Jews in Judea samaria. You appear to beleive that BB is synonymous with settlement.. but he is an obstructor of settlement outside the major blocks. He has taken the position of the Judenrat by implementing the euro policies that jewish settlement is illegal in YS… he keeps the jews in a small corner…. and makes no new ones. Should I rejoice that he has allowed the jews a little of their land?
Bear Klein Said:
I am interested in exposing his agenda because he has siphoned off the energy and votes of the right wing with deception… that deception being that he supports jewish settlement in YS when he has done exactly the opposite. the glass is more than half empty and it is certainly not half full. I cannot be happy that BB has never slapped the face of the stinking euros every time they mention illegal jews in the jewish homeland… I find BB’s behavior on this issue …. despicable and furthering continuing lies, libels and ultimately dead jews murdered on the basis of the lies he never rebuts.
Bear Klein Said:
I agree, in spite of BB they will build in YS anywhere the judenrat will allow them to build… only BB prevents Jews from living in their homeland…. apparently you are the one hiding because you seek to protect BB from the truth…. do you deny the facts of BB or are you just always making excuses for his transparent MO? Admit it, he has done nothing to advance Jewish settlement in area C… just allowing some bldg in settlements which existed before him.
In 2010 there were 327K Jews in Judah/Samaria
In 2015 there were 406K
4.38% Growth from 2014 to 2015
24% Growth from 2010 to 2015.
Bernard you did not read the report! Yet you are making statements about what the report did not report?
Believe what you like learning facts are not important to the actual situation to some people? Their is population growth is in almost Jewish Towns across all of Judah/Samaria.
You should think this is a good thing, no? Maybe you are just more interested in blasting Bibi? I agree I do not like when Bibi stops building in Judah/Samaria.
It is the individual Jews who live in Judah/Samaria who creating the population growth. Why hide from it?
Bear Klein Said:
LOL, you make it sound like a weather event rather than a policy of BB.
Bear Klein Said:
true, but BB is NOT GOOD for population growth in most of C outside the major blocks…. on the Jewish settlement issue I see no avenue for him getting any credit. He has preserved most of C empty of jews and he has facilitated muslim bldg and he has facilitated the libel of illegal jewish settlement. If he were not building but was at least repelling that lying canard I could say his hands are tied… perhaps. But no one ties his lips, no one prevents him from disputing the lies about jews being illegal… he does that from choice…. in my view because he wants it to just go away… that is also why he has pursued the defamation of real zionists and nationalists.
Bear Klein Said:
it required me to give them name, adress etc… not doing it.
Bear Klein Said:
what towns does it list OUTSIDE the major settlement blocks? we have knocked the 400K plus figure around for years but almost all that figure to my recollection is in the major blocks…same with the growth figures quoted… I have not read since BB came in of one new settlement outside the blocks. Do you disagree with my summary that the population AND the growth are almost ALL in the major blocks or immdiately adjacent, that there is an obstruction to other jewish settlement in C ,
you appear to keep sidestepping the basic issue I raise every time regarding BB. We already know there are 400K + inside the major blocks and BB himself keeps saying that he is only building in the major blocks to be kept….. and BB never tells the euros that jewish settlement is legal, and BB has helped the euros build muslim homes illegally for 8 years…. you keep sidestepping these facts.
Bear Klein Said:
I know that you understand where they are and yet you have yet to deny that almost all the growth and population are in the major blocks…. and that bb restricts bldg outside those blocks in C.
Bear Klein Said:
a generic statement…. was there any significant bldg outside the major blocks during BB’s reign? I base my conclusion on each announcement of approvals and bldgs, on BB’s own words, on the complaints of those that he has frozen bldg outside the major blocks. I still have yet to see anything that disagrees with my points… what I do see is that you always avoid my points: he either builds significantly outside the major blocks or he does not….. what do you think he does?
I havent seen or heard of any new settlements outside the major blocks in C for eight years… that have actually begun construction… have you? I have heard of euros building muslim homes there, and of land being given in C to pals for bldg. I am not impressed to hear what I know already about the 400k+ in the major blocks which I knew already…. they do not prevent a pal state as most of the vacant land of C is untouched by Jews.
If BB does not make any new settlements in C in 8 years then he is not supporting Jewish settlement in the Jewish homeland. If he never even rebuts euro libels that jews in ys are illegal then he does not support jewish settlement, if he facilitates for 8 years euro illegal building of muslim homes in C then he does not support jewish settlement. This report is being used to provide a fig leaf for BB’s lack of support for Jewish settlement by pretending the opposite.
Population growth of Jews in Judah/Samaria is good!
Yes that the government stops building at times in Judah/Samaria and at times slows it up is not a good thing at all.
@ NormanF:
Norman you are correct the Pals do not want a state in Gaza/ parts of Judah/Samaria they want all of Israel and the Jews gone that has always been the issue.
So they can not have it, so it blocks a Palestinian State. That is a good thing.
@ bernard ross:
You should read the report Bernard it lists all the towns. The population growth was spread out in all in Jewish Towns in Judah/Samaria. So more some less it does not conceal anything it goes town by town settlement by settlement. Did you download the actual .pdf report? If yes did you read it? If yes do you actually understand where the towns are?
Impediment to a Palestinian Arab state?
Hogwash. Jewish settlements occupy only 2% of the total land mass of Judea and Samaria.
There’s plenty of room for an Arab state. Arabs don’t want one.
And that has nothing to do at all with Jews living there.
not at all, most of areas A, B and C are still available for a pal state….and i believe that the the Jewish settlement in area C is less than 50% of area C because the land swaps are proposed to account for the major blocks range from single digit percentage to low teens…. like between 7 and 15%. so all that increase was in a small part of C, kept restricted by BB in order to preserve the much larger vacant land percentage empty of Jews for the muslims…. what other reason could he have for preventing Jews from living in YS… outside the euro designated ghetto boundaries. BB has everyone fighting and struggling to build in the major blocks and annexed Jerusalem… in that way no one remembers to struggle to build in or annex the rest of C.
Bear Klein Said:
what this indicates is that there is a large market who want to live in YS but BB restricts that growth to the already existing major settlement blocks…. he has added nothing to it. why hasnt he built in area C new settlements for jews… he has dedicated land in area C for new settlements for muslims, whole cities. I beleive that part of rawabi is in area C. BB’s net influence on settlement is negative, no advances made, only a struggle to build in already existing blocks… bb has kept the lid on it… YS has grown as a result of the new settlements created by others…. BB says no new settlements because the euros told him its illegal and illegitimate… and BB has de facto agreed with them. its not nice to give the false impression that BB supports jewish settlement.
Bear Klein Said:
but the report conceals the fact that the growth was restricted to the major settlement blocks “that everyone knows Israel will keep”, according to netanyahu. Settlement outside those blocks in the major vacant portions of area C have been frozen by BB while at the same time he facilitated for 8 years the euro illegal building of muslim homes. there have been no new settlements outside the major blocks…. BB has made sure to keep the growth within the euro designated ghetto boundaries of the major blocks only. that is why you have never heard BB netanyahu utter these words:
JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN YS IS LEGAL AND LEGITIMATE”
He is afraid that jews might demand to live outside the euro designated ghetto boundaries. BB cannot even build in E1 where he announced to build, which connects to Maale adunim…. but the euros are building there for the muslims.
the reports is misleading because it appears to say that BB has influenced settlement positively but all he has done for jewish settlement is to restrict it to the major blocks. There is a whole lot of vacant land in area C under Israels control which was legally designated for Jewish settlement in the LON mandate. BB has restricted building there …. for jews.
Population growth in Judah/Samaria is percentage wise larger than in the rest of Israel.