A bit of background: The Hebrew word for “settlement” is “hitnahalut” (pl. “hitnahaluyot”). When that word became stigmatized, officials and the media began using the more neutral “yishuvim,” which can be translated as “commmunities,” as a code word for “settlements.” But a yishuv is actually any kind of settled area, from a village to a town to a city to an entire country — the Jewish community in pre-state Palestine was known as “the Yishuv.”