The poorest areas evoke images of flimsy makeshift settlements: cities have become refugee camps for the evictees of rural life.
Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations.
Ariel is an Israeli settlement city in the West Bank.
As part of the settlement, city officials agreed to phase in Mr. Ravitch's property taxes over 20 years.
The debate Kaufman posted shows Szekely calling Ariel (an Israeli settlement city in the West Bank) "a panhandle … intentionally designed to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state".
Ten minutes past the settlement city of Ma'ale Adumim, on the steep descent into the Rift Valley, Samson turned onto a dust-covered track, and suddenly the desert enveloped us.
Earlier, in remarks before the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Mr. Netanyahu said he would also plant saplings in Maale Adumim and Ariel, two large settlement-cities that Israel also intends to keep.
As in most settlements, the city does not acknowledge wrongdoing in these cases.
In reaching the settlements, the city admitted no fault or liability.
In the settlement, the city admitted to procedural mistakes.
