Postal Codes of All Israeli Settlements and API to Lookup and Avoid
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A GitHub repository lists postal codes of Israeli settlements and provides an API to lookup and identify them, sparking discussion around the implications of labeling them as 'illegal' under international law.
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The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example API to lookup postal codes and determine if it matches one of the (illegal, under international law) Israeli settlements.
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