81.   Jewish settlers have been the targets of shooting attacks on West Bank and Gaza Strip roads since the fighting broke out in September.

82.   Jewish settlers in the city have warned that if the army concedes control to the Palestinians, the settlers will be in danger.

83.   Last week, Chief Sephardic Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron suggested that if the settlers were imperiled they should be evacuated from the town.

84.   Many early settlers were czarist prisoners, sent to work coal mines.

85.   Many Jewish settlers are relative moderates tempted to move to the West Bank by financial incentives offered by previous governments.

86.   Netanyahu has insisted he only learned about the takeover after the settlers were already in Ras al-Amud.

87.   Nearly all the early settlers were French and Roman Catholic.

88.   Netanyahu later said he only learned about the takeover after the settlers were already in Ras al-Amud.

89.   Press reports said Friday that the troop withdrawal might start from towns where there are no settlers, including Bethlehem.

90.   Religious settlers were more likely to oppose leaving the West Bank than nonreligious settlers, almost half of whom were willing to consider moving, the poll said.