West Bank Area Is 6,195 Km2 (Includes Shomron Northwest Portion of Dead Sea, One-Half of No Man's Land, and All of 3 East Jerusalem Except Mount Scopus)

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Israeli to Palestinian See “Map 5a: Afula Area* Km2 % of Baseline† Triangle Detail” A North 18.7 .30% B Northwest 2.2 .04% C Southwest 25.1 .40% Umm Mt. Gilboa D South 13.3 .21% Al-Fahm E Gaza 87.6 1.41% Kafr Qara H Beit Shean F Chalutzah not included not included G Southwest 2 not included not included Umm Jenin H Triangle 146.2 2.36% Al-Qutuf TOTAL‡ 293.1 4.73 % A Palestinian to Israeli H % of Settler % of Total Bloc Km2 Baseline† Population** Settlers 1 North of Ariel 31.0 .50% 11,621 3.89% 2 Ariel 29.6 .48% 19,737 6.60% 3 Western Edge/ 105.3 1.70% 79,687 26.65% B Modiin Illit†† 4 Expanded Ofra/Bet El 26.1 .42% 20,023 6.70% Tulkarem 5 North of Jerusalem 10.9 .18% 15,866 5.31% Qalansawe 6 East Jerusalem 29.1 .47% not included not included Jewish neighborhoods Tayibe 7 Maale Adumim 10.8 .17% 34,600 11.57% H Kfar Adumim 5.8 .09% 2,800 .94% 8 Betar Illit/Gush Etzion 42.8 .69% 54,012 18.06% Tire Kedumim Nablus 9 Southern Edge 1.7 .03% 900 .30% TOTAL‡ 293.1 4.73% 239,246‡‡ 80.01%*** Qalqiliya 1 * Areas considered unpopulated. Alfe Karne Menashe Immanuel † Baseline figure for total Gaza/West Bank area is 6,195 km2 (includes Shomron northwest portion of Dead Sea, one-half of No Man's Land, and all of 3 east Jerusalem except Mount Scopus). ‡ Totals derived from rounding decimal numbers. ** No Palestinians currently reside in Israeli settlements. 2 Ariel †† Excludes one-half the area of No Man's Land. 3 ‡‡ The total jumps to 428,457 when Jewish residents of east Jerusalem plus West Bank settlers are included. *** The total jumps to 87.76% when Jewish residents of east Jerusalem plus West Bank settlers are included. West Ben

Gurion JORDAN Summary Airport Bank Areas to be Israeli • 43 settlements containing 239,246 settlers 3 Ofra (80.01% of all settlers) Bet El • 4.73% of baseline territory Ramla Modiin Illit Areas to be Palestinian 4 • 77 settlements containing 59,782 settlers Ramallah (19.99% of all settlers) Bet Choron • 95.72% of baseline territory Givat Jericho Zeev 5 3 5

6 7 Maale ISRAEL Jerusalem Adumim Gaza Strip

Betar Illit Bethlehem D e a d Jabalya Sderot 8 Efrat S e a Gaza 0 5 mi City 0 5 km MAP 5: Triangle C Land Swap Option

E Hebron Kiryat Land Swap: Israeli to Palestinian Arba Land Swap: Palestinian to Israeli Israeli settlements Khan Yunis ISRAEL Palestinian communities East Jerusalem Yatta No Man’s Land Rafah 1967 Green Line Barrier completed Mezadot Barrier under construction 9 Yehuda Kerem Israeli tunnel/Palestinian D EGYPT Shalom overland route Highway

Land Swap: Israeli to Palestinian Land Swap: Palestinian to Israeli 66 Israeli settlements Palestinian communities 1967 Green Line Barrier completed Barrier under construction Highway Givat Oz Primary road Maale Minor road Iron Zububa NOTE: Predominantly Jewish towns are denoted 65 by italics.

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Katzir-Charish Hinanit Kafr Dan Umm Shaked Barkai Al-Qutuf Bartaa Rechan Al-Araqa Ash-Sharqiya Jenin Maanit Birqin 65 6 Ya’bad Meisar Kufeirit

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ISRAEL Maor Chermesh Mevo Dotan Nazlat Isa Qabatiya Baqa Baqa-Jatt Ash-Sharqiya Arraba Sde Yitzchak

Lehavot Chaviva Misiliya Seida Magal Zeita Fahma Kafr Rai Illar Attil Zemer Ajja Sanur Bachan Deir Meithalun Gan Yoshiya Al-Ghusun West

Bal’a Bat Chefer Bank Jaba Siris Yad Chana Silat Al-Fandaqumiya Nur Shams Camp Adh-Dhahr Dhinnaba Anabta SummaryBizzariya Nitzane Oz Tulkarem Burqa Kafr % of TotalYasid Al-Labad Beit Imrin Israeli population Shaar Efraim Population* RaminIsraeli Jews 5,757,700 75.48% Far’un Avne Qalansawe Chefetz Enav Israeli Arabs plus east Jerusalem Arabs 1,555,700 20.40% Israeli Arabs in Triangle area 218,865 2.87% Sabastiya Israeli Arabs plus east Jerusalem Arabs 1,336,835 18.04% minus those in Triangle area 6 Yaaf Israeli Jews minus those in Triangle area 5,757,000 77.71% Tayibe Beit Lid Shavei Shomron Azriel Jew: Arab ratio in Israel (pre-swap) 3.7:1 Asira Deir Sharaf Ash-Shamaliya Jew: Arab ratio in Israel (post-swap) 4.3:1 Kfar Hes *Includes all permanent residents. Salit Beit Iba Tzur Natan Tire Ein Beit El-Ma Camp

Kafr Kafr Qaddum Kochav Yair Jammal Nablus Ramat Hakovesh Kedumim Jit Sarra Eyal Hajja Tell Nir Jayyus 0 2 mi Eliyahu Tzufim Bracha Qalqiliya 0 2 km Immatin Kafr Qallil Burin Ramallah MAP 6: East JerusalemBeituniya Current Land Distribution Kochav % of East Israeli neighborhoods Yaakov Area Km2 Jerusalem* Population Kafr Israeli neighborhoods 14.8 22.4% 189,200 Palestinian neighborhoods Aqab Palestinian neighborhoods 19.4 29.4% 263,500 Jerusalem municipal boundary * As defined for the purposesMikhmas of this study, east Jerusalem Jaba 2 No Man’s Land Rafat contains 66.0 km of land, including half of No Man's Land Qalandiya but(Tajammu’ excluding Mount Scopus and the 1.15 km2 Holy Basin. 1967 Green Line Camp Badawi) Old City Qalandiya Barrier completedGivat Zeev Barrier under construction Jaba Al-Judeira Primary road Ar-Ram (incl. Dahiyat Minor road Al-Jib Bir Al-Bareed) Nabala Geva Binyamin Givon Beit Hachadasha 60 Ijza Neve 404 Yaakov

Hizma Biddu An-Nabi Almon Samwil Beit Hanina Beit 436 Al-Balad Hanina

Beit Surik Pisgat Zeev Ramot Beit Shuafat East Iksa Alon Anata Ramat Shuafat Camp Shlomo Jerusalem French Hill (Givat Shapira) Ramat Givat Eshkol Ha-Mivtar Isawiyya Maalot Dafna Sheikh Mount Jarrah Scopus Wadi Al- American Goz Az-Za’ayyem Colony 1 (Bab Az-Zahara) Eastern City– As-Sawana Nablus Road Old Muslim Mount of Quarter Olives Christian (At-Tur) City Quarter West Jewish Maale Armenian Quarter Quarter Al-Eizariya Adumim Jerusalem Ir David Silwan Ras Al-Amud Abu Tor Abu Dis Arab Al-Jahalin

Arab East As-Sawahira Talpiyot As-Sawahira Beit Safafa Ash-Sharqiya Sharafat Givat Ash- Ha-Matos Sur Sheikh Bahar Sa’d

Gilo 356 Al-Walaja Har 60 Har Gilo Homa Khallet An-Nu’man Al-Ubeidiya Ayda Camp 0 1 mi Al-Aza Beit Camp Al-Khas Jala 0 1 km Dar Salah Wadi Bethlehem Al-Arayis Beit Juhdum ©2011 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Umm Shaur Al-Qasseis Sources: See copyright page. Appendix: Profile of Settlement Blocs and East Jerusalem Jewish Neighborhoods

◼ 1. north of Ariel ◼ 2. Ariel

Stt e leMEnT Population Stt e leMEnT Population Immanuel 2,900 Ariel 16,800 Karne Shomron 6,600 Barkan 1,317 Maale Shomron 582 Kiryat Netafim 545 Nofim 410 Revava 1,075 Yakir 1,129 TLOTA 19,737 TLOTA 11,621

number of settleMEnTS: 4 P i opulat on: 19,737 number of settleMEnTS: 5 To tal population26: 11,621 2009 KnESSET election: Likud, 44.0% (4,309 votes); Yisrael Beitenu, 28.5% (2,794 votes). 2009 KnESSET election27: National Union, 29.6% (1,603 votes); Likud, 28.2% (1,529 votes). Brierar status: Most of the bloc lies outside the separation barrier, except for the city of Ariel, which is Briertar s atus28: Sections of the completed sepa- mostly encompassed by the barrier except on its western ration barrier run to the east of Immanuel settlement side. Israel initially planned to extend the barrier around and to the north and west of Karne Shomron and the Ariel bloc, but the proposal drew international Maale Shomron settlements. condemnation and was abandoned following an Israeli Supreme Court ruling. cateristicsh rac : Most of the towns in this bloc were founded from the mid-1970s to early 1980s. cateristicsh rac : The city of Ariel, by far the Although most of the inhabitants are tied to Gush bloc’s largest settlement and the fourth-largest in the Emunim, a messianic political movement dedicated West Bank, was founded in 1978 by a Likud parliamen- to establishing a robust Jewish presence in the West tarian. Today it is home to the Ariel University Cen- Bank, some settlements have a different composi- ter of Samaria, which enrolls around 9,500 Jewish and tion: Immanuel, for example, is composed of ultra- Arab students from throughout Israel, making it one of orthodox Jews (or Haredim), while Karne Shom- the country’s largest institutions of higher education.30 ron prides itself on attracting North American olim In 2010, Prime Minister Netanyahu and his governing (immigrants).29 coalition declared Ariel the “capital of Samaria” and

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy 23 Ig ma inIng the Border reaffirmed its integral nature to Israel, echoing a simi- ca h racTERISTICS: Established in 1970 by the Ezra lar vow by Ehud Olmert.31 Demographically, the city Youth Movement, Mevo Horon is one of the earliest is mixed between religious Zionists, other observant Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Other settlements factions, and more secular Jews, many from the former in the bloc were founded in the 1980s, including the Soviet Union (e.g., more than 9,000 mostly secular Rus- religious kibbutz Etz Efrayim, the mixed religious and sian Jews have moved to Ariel since 199032). Much of secular community of Shaare Tikva, the Oranit kib- the bloc’s recent infrastructure funding has come from butz, Bet Arye, Hashmonaim, Nili, Naale, Matityahu, evangelical Christian groups in the United States and and Kfar Haoranim (though legal issues prevented res- other nations. idents from actually moving into this last settlement until 1997). ◼ 3. Western Edge/Modiin Illit Approximately half of Hashmonaim’s residents are new immigrants from North America, and almost all Stt e leMEnT Population are religious Zionists.33 Matityahu is another religious Alfe Menashe 6,900 moshav (agricultural cooperative) founded by a group Bet Arye–Ofraim 3,900 of U.S. settlers. Elkana 3,200 Established in 1983, Alfe Menashe is close to both Etz Efrayim 716 the 1967 lines and the Palestinian town of Qalqiliya. Hashmonaim 2,700 This has made its inclusion on the Israeli side of the Kfar Haoranim 2,200 security barrier controversial, creating a loop that iso- lates various Arab villages from the rest of the West Matityahu 1,382 Bank. In 2005, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Mevo Horon 1,327 the barrier must be rerouted.34 Construction on a new Modiin Illit 44,900 route began in 2009, with the aim of excluding various Naale 749 Arab villages from the Israeli side. Nili 913 Modiin Illit was established in 1996 and is by Oranit 6,600 far the largest Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Shaare Tikva 4,200 Almost completely Haredi, it has the highest fertil- TLOTA 79,687 ity rate among all Israeli communities, with an annual growth rate of 9.5%.35 The city’s rapid growth can also be attributed to its central location halfway between number of settleMEnTS: 13 Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. To tal population: 79,687 ◼ 4. Expanded Ofra/Bet El 2009 KnESSET election: United Torah Judaism, 33.8%; (10,127 votes); Likud , 20.2% (6,050 votes). Stt e leMEnT Population Bet El 5,600 B tarRIER s atus: Four towns lie completely within Geva Binyamin 3,900 the barrier (Etz Efrayim, Elkana, Shaare Tikva, and Kochav Yaakov 6,100 Oranit), seven are almost completely encompassed (Alfe Menashe, Bet Arye, Modiin Illit, Hashmonaim, Ofra 2,800 Kfar Haoranim, Matityahu, and Mevo Horon), and Psagot 1,623 two lie outside it (Nili and Naale). TLOTA 20,023

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