LONDON: A British charity is funding a Jewish religious school in an illegal settlement in Hebron, according to the UK government’s Charity Commission.
Friends of Yeshivat Shavei Hevron sent almost £200,000 ($267,000) to Hebron Yeshiva between 2019 and 2024, according to figures on the regulator’s website.
The school received approval for a new dormitory to be built in June after an agreement on planning authority in the city was broken by Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Parts of the expansion are already complete and the Israeli military has built an outpost on top of a Palestinian house located next to the site.
The expansion will increase the population of the settlement, which is kept isolated from the local Palestinian population by an Israeli military-run complex of defense systems, including fences, walls and checkpoints.
