Zionist settlers by the numbers

-- Israel has built dozens of settlements since 1967 that are now home to at least 541,000 Israelis, about 4 percent of the Israeli electorate.

-- As of the end of 2012, there were just over 341,000 settlers in the West Bank. The remaining 200,000 are in east 'Jerusalem' (occupied al-Quds). About 2.3 million Palestinians live in the West Bank and 300,000 in the area.

-- About 80,000 settlers will remain outside Israel's West Bank separation barrier when it is completed. The barrier, which Israel says is a security measure, gives a glimpse into the communities that Israel hopes to keep under a peace accord. Settlements outside the barrier would likely be removed.

-- More than half of settlements are defined as "national religious" and "ultra-Orthodox." About a quarter of settlers live in large non-orthodox towns, while most of the rest live in smaller villages of secular or religiously mixed populations. Two percent live in small farming settlements along the Jordanian border.

-- In the Jan. 2013 elections, the pro-settler Jewish Home Party received the most votes, some 28 percent, followed 21 percent for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-Beiteinu faction. The two main ultra-Orthodox parties garnered 27 percent of the vote.