Knesset Committee To US Ambassador: Jewish Construction In The West Bank ‘should Continue’

Yuli Edelstein, Israeli Knesset Member for the Likud, speaks at the Reichman University’s Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) in the Mediterranean coastal city of Herzliya near Tel Aviv, on November 23, 2021. Coalition agreements include a pledge to expand Jewish building in Judea and Samaria and to apply Israeli sovereignty over substantial portions of the territory. JACK GUEZ/JNS

The chair of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee told U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides that settlement expansion would continue, despite Washington’s objections.