Last year, Israeli theater artists refused to perform at a new cultural center in the urban settlement of Ariel and in other West Bank settlements, causing a public uproar.
In some places, drought is driving the animals out of their wilder haunts and into human settlements causing run-ins that have ended violently, and even fatally.
Estimated and measured settlements caused by pumping rarely agree.
Construction took place in the 1980s and the building was severely damaged by differential settlements caused by land subsidence throughout time.
The accurate, efficient and economical monitoring of settlements caused by tunnel boring machines, especially in regions of particular interest such as critical inner city areas, has become an important aspect of the tunnelling operation.
Deformations and settlements caused by seepage and pore-water pressure buildup were monitored with two 0.1 m-range CMOS multi-function analog laser displacement sensors attached to a wooden overboard (Fig. 1b).
A large part of the tunnel is placed in a trench and is founded on soft marine clay which is reinforced by cement deep mixing (CDM) columns to limit and control the settlements caused by the weight of the tunnel and its protection material.
For those who believe deeply in the settlement cause, the recent violence is upsetting but not surprising, since they had long been convinced that the peace effort would disintegrate into bloodshed.
Hardline allies of Mr Netanyahu meanwhile criticised him for linking the Jewish settlement cause with the release of prisoners convicted over killings of mostly Israelis, with one settler leader branding the move an "unnecessary stain on the construction".
After they left, Russian artillery pounded the settlement, causing many civilian casualties, according to Russian media reports from the area.
