B'Tselem and Keren Navot report: "This Is Ours – And This, Too : Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank", March 2021

The other bloc is located in the center of the the geography of the West Bank beyond recognition West Bank and consists of the settlements of Ariel, over the decades. [...] -6- - The bloc south of Bethlehem stretches from the Israeli regime, which strives to promote and perpetuate Green Line in the west to the edge of the Judean Jewish supremacy in the entire area between the desert in the east, edging the southern municipal Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, is an apartheid boundaries of Jerusalem – including parts of the West regime. [...] It is the reason Beitar Illit and the Gush Etzion Regional Council, and why more than two million dunams of Palestinian land the bloc in the center of the West Bank, which includes have been stolen – officially and unofficially – and why the settlements of Ariel, Rehelim, Eli, Ma’ale Levona the West Bank is now crisscrossed with roads linking and Shilo, and the outposts built around them. [...] The average district grade achieved by reducing gaps in development and standard of living students in settlements in the Growth and Effectiveness between National Priority communities and the rest Measures for Schools (GEMS) standardized testing of the communities in the country, encouraging next is the second highest (58.3), after students in the Tel generations to settle in National Priority co. [...] arms, as well as public agencies and authorities such as regional councils in the West Bank, the Amana arm In addition to subsidies for social services, the of the Gush Emunim movement and the Settlement government gives low-income local authorities Division of the World Zionist Organization, which plays a “balancing grants.” The grants are supposed to be key role in the establishment and funding.