Inevitably, the officials said, some emigres would want to live in the West Bank.

About 2.5 million Palestinians live in the West Bank.

The other 26 percent, about 63,000, live in the West Bank beyond the barrier.

Arabs who live in the West Bank and Gaza have none of this.

About 200,000 settlers live in the West Bank, which is also home to more than two million Palestinians.

Most Armenians living previously in the West Bank, have left the country.

About 200,000 settlers live in the West Bank and Gaza.

About 230,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank, and the number is increasing by at least 10,000 each year.

About 1.7 million people live in the West Bank and Gaza.

But by midweek some ministers who live in the West Bank had slipped back home.