He also brought the settlers' representatives, the National Religious Party, into his coalition and gave them the Housing Ministry, which led to a significant expansion of the settlement enterprise.

He joined the settlement enterprise in 1972.

"I want to save as much of the settlement enterprise in the territories as possible," Mr. Sharon told the daily Yediot Aharonot.

Eshkol went ahead to create the settlement anyway, and therefore set the conditions which began the Movement for Greater Israel and Israel's settlement enterprise.

WITH Israel's national election approaching, each day's news emphasizes a clear political shift: the settlement enterprise has lost the support of the country's mainstream voters.

Once completed, the settlement enterprise went to the medieval old town in the mountainous Endingen in Kaiserstuhl to select the settlers.

Meron Benvenisti described the settlement enterprise as a "commercial real estate project that conscripts Zionist rhetoric for profit."

Munayyer has been a consistent critic of the Israeli occupation of Arab territory and its settlement enterprise within them.

The acts of random violence generally follow actions by Israeli authorities that are perceived as harming the settlement enterprise, or follow Palestinian violence against settlers.

They are the victims of the settlement enterprise.