Israel’s far-right coalition government has accelerated administrative measures in the West Bank, including February 2026 cabinet approvals for land registration as state property, expanded civilian authority over Area C, and March approval of 34 new settlements. These steps integrate territory into Israeli planning and legal frameworks without a formal sovereignty declaration. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and allies continue advocating explicit annexation goals, while Knesset bills on heritage sites and settler land purchases advance through committees. Countervailing pressures include U.S. opposition to formal moves, warnings from Gulf states over normalization talks, and broader diplomatic isolation. Trader assessments of any deadline thus center on whether incremental bureaucratic integration crosses into declared annexation or remains limited by external constraints and coalition dynamics.