Jewish #settlers to increase by 50% in five years: Israeli minister
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The number of Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied #west_bank could grow by as much as 50 percent by 2019, #Israel's ultra-nationalist construction minister said on Friday. Construction and Housing Minister Uri Ariel, a member of the hardline Jewish Home party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative coalition government, said the negotiations on Palestinian statehood were in their “dying throes” and predicted the settler population would spiral. read more