West Bank & Jerusalem
Netanyahu pledges to expand Ariel settlement to 100,000 residents
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to expand the Israeli settlement of Ariel to 100,000 residents and open a university medical center there, Channel 14 reported. The statements came during Netanyahu's inauguration of a street named after his father in the settlement.
The expansion would roughly triple Ariel's current population. Netanyahu made no timeline public for the construction or the medical facility. The settlement, located in the central West Bank, has been a focal point of Israeli development efforts for decades and serves as the de facto capital of the settlements in that region.
