Organizers say site deliberately chosen to foil Palestinian territorial contiguity, call on Netanyahu government not to raze it like the previous government

State Department spokesman says administration's stance against unilateral steps 'certainly' includes Israeli government's effort to legalize Homesh in northern West Bank

State tells High Court that new government will repeal clause in 2005 law mandating that Homesh be evacuated; left-wing groups rail at move as settler leaders offer praise

Coalition pact said to shift process of picking heads of COGAT and Civil Administration to politicians, granting right-wing more power to expand settlements, restrict Palestinians

Under deal with Likud, junior minister from Religious Zionism to oversee key defense ministry organizations responsible for enforcing regulations, daily life in the West Bank

Rabbi Elishama Cohen, who heads the makeshift West Bank yeshiva, indicted for violating the Disengagement Law and spending time in Homesh without permission

Ramallah says deal with far-right Otzma Yehudit is 'sabotage' to prospects of future peace based on the two-state principle

In a significant policy change, unauthorized West Bank settlements will now be eligible to receive security equipment, including mobile information collection and warning systems

Hafez Hureini, injured along with a settler in a violent incident in the Hebron Hills, has been in detention since Monday; no settlers involved have been questioned by police.

Military declares the area a closed military zone in a move designed to block repeated efforts to rebuild the outpost, which was demolished 3 times last month