With its playgrounds, identical houses and manicured flower beds, Bruchin looks like any placid Israeli suburb. Except that Bruchin is not supposed to exist. Bruchin is among more than 100 West Bank outposts never officially authorized by the Israeli government. And Israel’s repeated commitments to freeze settlement construction haven’t hampered Bruchin’s transformation from a cluster of trailers less than eight years ago into a thriving community of 380 people, girded by government supplied roads, electricity and water. Full Story