The switch "certainly creates the appearance that insurers are trying to end-run the settlement and keep out-of-network payments low," Mr. Lawsky said.
The settlement has grown from 10 camps over seven and a half square miles to 28 camps over about 10 square miles, and efforts to acquire more land from local chiefs are under way, said Samuel Mbumbi, the project coordinator for the Lutheran World Federation, which runs the settlement with the United Nations high commissioner for refugees.
Initially, Israel would place a high-tech barrier around Ariel, but the barrier would not run from the settlement to the West Bank frontier, Israeli officials said.
"I know Bill," Trump said in an interview with the Times, after the paper had run the story about the settlements, which he thought never should have been paid.
The nations that exist in the Eastern Mediterranean are provisional, not only because they were the creation of the British & French who ran the peace settlements of 1918-1923 but also because in Arab eyes there is supposed to be an"Arab nation' without internal frontiers.
SAMVA, the private company the government contracts to run the facility, denies the squatter settlements' existence and has threatened photographers and journalists who try to document life there.
But Liau ignored him and ran towards the settlement.
Five Chinese men ran from the settlement, past the coal-carrying conveyor belt and a rock crusher and into the mine, Danny Sikatari, who works as a mine foreman but who did not participate in the protest, told me.
David Garza, 48, runs the Henry Street Settlement, a social service agency on the Lower East Side, but his Sundays belong to Park Slope, Brooklyn, where he grew up.
Otherwise, the Netanyahu government runs the risk of the settlements becoming a self-consuming cancer.
