This year marked an all-time high in expansion in Judea and Samaria, with a record number of new housing tenders issued.
So far in 2025, the Israeli government and the Israel Land Authority have granted tenders for 5,667 housing units in Israeli towns across Judea and Samaria, nearly 50% more than the number issued in the previous record-setting year.
In 2018, 3,808 housing unit tenders were issued, the most prior to 2025.
Three towns in the Jordan Valley were normalized Monday, including Giv’onit, Ir HaTmarim, Gadi — along with four in the Samaria Regional Council and six in the Benjamin Regional Council.
“This is a major step toward formalizing communities and integrating them as an inseparable part of the State of Israel,” Minister Bezalel Smotrich said.