ESH KODESH, Palestinian Territories
A general view shows Esh Kodesh, an unauthorised Jewish settler outpost, south of the West Bank city...
A general view shows Esh Kodesh, an unauthorised Jewish settler outpost, south of the West Bank city of Nablus January 5, 2016. Steeped in messianic Jewish mysticism and rebelling against what they see as adulterated modern Zionism, the "Hilltop Youth," a new generation of ultra-religious settlers whose resentment of the secular Israeli state rivals their hostility toward Arabs, number in the hundreds, by most accounts. But they pose a deep-rooted challenge even for the nationalist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as it struggles to stanch Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed in the absence of peace negotiations. Picture taken January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun