Israel to Build 850 More Apartments in West Bank Israel says it will build 850 new homes in the West Bank - an effort to appease settlers furious over government plans to dismantle an illegally built settlement outpost. The new homes will include 300 to be built in the Beit El settlement and 550 others that Construction Minister Ariel Attias said on Thursday will be built elsewhere in the West Bank. Jewish settlers protest against the proposed decision to evacuate a West Bank outpost in the Ulpana neighborhood, in the West Bank settlement of Beit El near the Palestinians city of Ramallah, outside the knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Close Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved construction of all 850 homes after parliament, at his urging, voted down a bill that would have legalized the Ulpana outpost, built on the outskirts of Beit El. Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the five apartment buildings in Ulpana removed by July 1 because they were built on privately held Palestinian land, something Israel considers illegal. The international community condemns all settlement construction.