Editing Gush Emunim (section)

===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}}</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}}</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>