Editing Gush Emunim (section)

==Impact==
===Political impact===
The overall practical aim of preventing territorial compromise and annexation of occupied territories has only partly been accomplished. Prominent failures include the demolishing and evacuation of settlements in the [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai peninsula]] following the [[Camp David Accords]], the phased transfer of jurisdiction to the [[Palestinian Authority]] in the West Bank as part of the [[Oslo Accords]], and the 2005 [[Israeli disengagement from Gaza|Gaza Disengagement]].{{Citation needed |date= October 2024 }}

Gush Emunim and its successors have successfully attracted billions of US dollars for the building and supporting of settlements. The 2005 [[Sasson Report]] revealed that the [[Ministry of Housing (Israel)|Ministry of Housing]], the [[Ministry of Defense (Israel)|Ministry of Defense]] and the [[World Zionist Organization]] spent millions of shekels to support illegal outposts. Between 2013 and 2015, Amana received government funding of approximately 100 million shekels ($29 million).<ref>{{Cite news |title= Settlement group will need High Court consent to get funding |newspaper= Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-settlement-group-will-need-high-court-consent-to-get-funding-1.8344649 |access-date= 30 April 2021}}</ref> On 31 December 2019, the [[Israeli High Court of Justice]] decided that any government donations to the executive branch of the settler movement required approval from the court.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Breakthrough: Funding For Amana Will Now Be Overseen By The High Court Until A Verdict |date=31 December 2019 |website=[[Peace Now]] |url= https://peacenow.org.il/en/breakthrough-funding-amana-will-now-be-overseen-by-the-high-court-until-a-verdict |access-date=30 April 2021}}</ref>

The settler movement has successfully appealed to sentiments related to Israeli identity, making it difficult for government officials and political leaders on the right to distance themselves from the settlers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Mendelsohn |first= Barak |title=State Authority in the Balance: The Israeli State and the Messianic Settler Movement |date=1 December 2014 |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12159|journal=[[International Studies Review]] |volume= 16 |issue= 4 |pages= 499–521 |doi= 10.1111/misr.12159 |issn= 1521-9488|url-access= subscription }}</ref> Support for the settlement project has become mainstream in the [[US Republican Party]],{{Citation needed |date= June 2024}} and almost all parties on the right of the political spectrum in Israel have settlers within its leadership.<ref>Hirsch-Hoefler & Mudde (2020), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ln-QzQEACAAJ&pg=PA223 223].</ref><ref>Newman (2005), pp. 192–224, 204.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1= Zertal |first1= Idith |author-link1= Idith Zertal |last2= Eldar |first2= Akiva |author-link2= Akiva Eldar |title= Lords of the land: the war over Israel's settlements in the occupied territories, 1967-2007 |year= 2009 |orig-year= 2005 |publisher= Nation Books |location= New York |page= 235 |translator= Vivian Sohn Eden |isbn=978-0-786-74485-5 |edition= 1st |oclc= 694096363 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rds_DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA235
}} Page failed verification, 26 April 2025 (but edition is not the 1st).</ref> Settlers have been disproportionately represented in government positions. The 2013 government was dubbed the 'settler government' in a ''[[Haaretz]]'' editorial, due to the number of officials associated with the settler movement in powerful positions within the ministries of Housing and Defense.<ref>{{Cite news |title= The emergence of Israel's settler government |url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-editorial-settler-government-emerges-1.5234627 |access-date= 30 April 2021 |newspaper= Haaretz}}</ref> In October 2017, under the leadership of [[Israeli Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]], [[Pinchas Wallerstein]], one of the founders of Gush Emunim, was appointed to head a new government committee created for the purpose of legalising illegal outposts and other types of unauthorised settlements in the West Bank.{{Citation needed |date= October 2024 }}

===Societal impact===
The establishment of Gush Emunim correlated with the revival of the [[Movement for Greater Israel|Greater Israel]] ideology within the national religious community.<ref>{{Cite book |editor=[[David Newman (political geographer) |Newman, David]] |title= The Impact of Gush Emunim: politics and settlement in the West Bank |year= 1985 |publisher= Croom Helm |location= London |isbn= 0709918216 |oclc= 59845481 |url= https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59845481}}</ref>{{page needed |date= April 2025}} The settler movement is also accused of provoking a [[Israeli settler violence|culture of violence]], with the Israeli government condoning its actions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Gazit |first= Nir |title= State-sponsored Vigilantism: Jewish Settlers' Violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories |date=1 June 2015 |journal= Sociology |volume= 49 |issue= 3 |pages= 438–45 |s2cid= 145652933 |doi= 10.1177/0038038514526648 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514526648|url-access= subscription }}</ref> The perpetrator of the [[Cave of the Patriarchs massacre|1994 Hebron massacre]] as well as the [[Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin|assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin]] were proponents of the Greater Israel ideology, with the latter being educated in the Gush Emunim-oriented [[Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh]]. The murder of Yitzak Rabin is widely regarded to have been a breaking point in the Oslo peace process.<ref>{{Cite journal |last= Rabinovich |first= Itamar |author-link= Itamar Rabinovich |title= The Rabin Assassination as a Turning Point in Israel's History |date= 2018 |journal= Israel Studies |volume= 23 |issue= 3 |pages= 25–29 |doi= 10.2979/israelstudies.23.3.05 |s2cid= 150349442 |issn= 1527-201X |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/699536|url-access= subscription }}</ref>

Since the founding of Gush Emunim in 1974, the number of settlers living in the West Bank has grown from close to zero in 1974 to approximately 440,000 in 2019. The number of settlements until 2020 stood at 132, and the number of illegal outposts at 135.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Population |website=[[Peace Now]] |url= https://peacenow.org.il/en/settlements-watch/settlements-data/population |access-date= 30 April 2021}}</ref>