A report by the Ariel College in Samaria revealed that the population growth in the last 12 years among West Bank settlers was three times higher than the rest of Israel .According to the report the Jewish population grew from 130,000 in 2005 to 270,000 by the end of 2007 a total of 107 per cent comparedto the entire population of Israel that grew by 29 percent over the same period. 12/15/08