Why Does Israel Say It Stays in the West Bank?
The Levy Report of 2012, a 1979 Knesset statement and Oslo II Article XXXI, quoted as Israeli bodies published them.
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What Does Israel Publish on Palestinian Building Permits?
Israel’s published West Bank record is an enforcement count: 13,481 Palestinian-sector cases, 1997 to 2013. Permit counts exist only for Jerusalem.
What Did Israel Say Its War Aims Were After October 7?
Israel’s own statement of its objectives, with the hostage counts attached: 207 returned, 48 remaining, on the Foreign Ministry’s count of September 2025.
Does the Palestinian Authority Run Its Own Areas?
What the Interim Agreement signed on 28 September 1995 assigns in Areas A, B and C, and what Israel’s State Comptroller recorded in 2016 and 2021.
Israel’s official record, with the source in the sentence
This site publishes what Israel’s own bodies publish. Every figure carries the body that issued it, the period it covers and, where the figure is a party’s own count of its own activity, the threshold that produced it.
It is funded by Israel, and it says so on the page that explains who publishes it and in the footer of every page here. It presents one side’s record and labels it as that.
Where the figures come from
- Central Bureau of Statistics
Population by group, births, immigration and the dated release series. Preliminary estimates are marked as preliminary.
- The Supreme Court
Judgments of the Court sitting as the High Court of Justice: what each one decided, and what it expressly left open.
- The Knesset
Enacted Basic Laws and statutes, quoted from the Knesset’s own English translations, which the Knesset itself labels unofficial.
- The Military Advocate General’s Corps, COGAT and the IDF
Counts of their own processes and their own activity, each carrying the threshold or the method that produced it.
- The State Comptroller, the Prime Minister’s Office and the ministries
Audit chapters, commissioned reviews and ministry publications.
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Has Israel Entered Gaza Neighbourhoods During the Ceasefire?
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View allPopulation and Demography
What the Central Bureau of Statistics counts: population by group, births, fertility, immigration and world Jewish population.
Law and Courts
Enacted statutes and Basic Laws, recorded Knesset votes, and judgments of Israel’s courts, quoted from the instrument.
Land and Planning
Land registration, allocation and planning: the statutes, military orders and commissioned reviews that govern them.
Security and Accountability
What the IDF, the Military Advocate General’s Corps and the Israel Police publish about their own conduct, and the thresholds that produced the counts.
Humanitarian Access
Aid, water and supply figures published by COGAT and the ministries, with what each figure counts and how it was recorded.
Antisemitism Monitoring
What Israel’s ministries and monitoring bodies count worldwide, the periods they cover and the definitions they apply.
Health
Life expectancy, national health expenditure and the health of each population group, as the Ministry of Health and the Bureau publish them.
Education
Pupils, matriculation, higher education and teaching staff, on the counts the Ministry of Education and the Bureau publish, with the school or academic year each belongs to.
Society and Services
Marriage and divorce, welfare registration, road casualties and the local-authority series, each attributed to the body that recorded it.
Economy and Budget
State Comptroller reports, budget lines, revenue and expenditure series, and the national accounts the Bureau publishes.
Treaties and Foreign Relations
Signed agreements, memoranda and the recorded foreign votes and appropriations that attach to them.
About this site
View allAbout and funding
Who publishes this site and who pays for it, in plain words. The same disclosure sits in the footer of every page here.
Sources and method
The bodies these pages are built from, and how every figure is checked against the document that published it.
Contact
How to reach us: quoting the record, sending a published document, and new pages by email.