Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire
Five days after Britain hit networks tied to settler violence in theWest Bankwith sanctions, the rest of the machine walked intoEdgware United Synagogueand carried on selling. On 14 June, theGreat Israeli Real Estate Eventwent ahead behind heavy police lines. Protesters packed the streets outside, politicians slammed it, and fourteen people got arrested. Inside, Israeli firms pitched homes, land and relocation packages tied straight into the settlement economy.
I followed the trail. It started with the deleted exhibitor listEmanuel Group CEO Emanuel Vatariposted. I ran it against company filings,Who Profitsrecords, settlement databases, Israeli tenders, Knesset votes, old promotional material and what happened that day. Initial reporting named four settlement-linked outfits. Two more,Oron Group Investments & Holdings Ltd.andBRIGA, were also in the room, but nobody reported it. The whole thing was sold as legal advice, financial guidance and help moving to Israel.
VIDEO: footage showing Israeli companies Oron Group and Briga Real Estate marketing properties at the event held at Edgware United Synagogue in London on Sunday, June 15. (Sourcejewish_antizionist_action|Instagram)
.Promotional stuff mentioned Gush Etzion early on before they scrubbed it under pressure. The night before the event, theInternational Centre of Justice for Palestiniansserved a formal legal notice on the synagogue, warning of severe legal and reputational risks if it went ahead. Same script that’s played out in synagogues in New York and across North America. Different city, same game.
Oron Group lays it bare. Big publicly traded Israeli company with contracts from theIsraeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office,Ministry of Defense, Airports Authority, Netivei Israel, Transport Ministry and Ministry of Construction and Housing. It runs theMeitarim Quarryon occupied land near Tene Omarim, pulling two and a half million tons of stone a year and running concrete and asphalt plants next to it. It expanded Highway 60 through the West Bank, carving under Beit Jala to link settlements to Jerusalem while bypassing Palestinian communities. It did housing expansion at Eshkolot and infrastructure for the Jerusalem Light Rail serving occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhoods.
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In October 2025, Oron secured aNIS 310 million contract,about eighty-three million dollars, to expand Terminal 3 atBen Gurion Airport. They rip stone out of occupied hills, build settler roads, and still collect big national projects at Israel’s main airport. The system is evidently feeding them.
Those West Bank contracts go through the Civil Administration and the Administration for Settlement Affairs, handed toBezalel Smotrichafter Netanyahu’s coalition deal in December 2022. Smotrich has boasted that the planning bodies under him have approved51,370 housing unitsin the West Bank and poured hundreds of millions into infrastructure and land registration. Ten days before Edgware, on 4 June, he pushed aKnesset law giving tax breaks to fifty-nine West Bank settlementsto stop any Palestinian state. On 14 June itself, while the developers worked on the synagogue floor, he signed atwo-billion-shekel dealfor six thousand apartments in Karnei Shomron plus roads, schools, transport and commercial areas. Karnei Shomron had already turned up in material linked to the London event. The state orders it, plans it and naturally protects it.
Harey Zahav, a hard‑line settlement developer, a company that built its business in Judea and Samaria and the southern West Bank, doesn’t pretend. It is drawing up plans for settlements in the Gaza Strip. and sells straight into Negohot, Kfar Eldad, Karnei Shomron, Immanuel and Tene Omarim. In February 2026, it pushed “Judea & Samaria” properties to overseas buyers andbragged about fifteen hundred homes delivered. Back in December 2023, while Gaza was being smashed, itpostedbeachfront villas and condos with the line “A house on the beach is not a dream.” Ze’ev Epshtein called it a “joke gone wrong” but said they would build if the government opened tenders, “as right-wingers, that’s also our approach.”
Source: 21st Century Wire
