Hebrew linguistic point:
In Hebrew, the coverterm for any populated place is "yishuv." A yishuv can be a city ("ir"), a village ("kfar"), a small town ("ayara"), a kibbutz, etc. The root YShB means "to sit." In English the best translation is "settlement," though in US Census-speak it's "place."
*However*, in an Israeli context, the Jewish settlements in the West Bank are not called yishuvim. The Hebrew word for one of them is "hitnakhalut," the root NḤL connoting a squat or seizure by force.
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