Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz signed an order for a dozen unauthorized West Bank settlements to be dismantled, public radio reported.
The radio station did not specify which wildcat Jewish settlements or when they are to be dismantled.
The daily Maariv reported Tuesday that Olmert was set to decide, following consultations with Peretz, on the dismantlement of six unauthorized West Bank settlements before he leaves for a trip to Washington on Sunday to meet US President George W. Bush.
In his first cabinet meeting earlier this month after being sworn in as prime minister Olmert pledged to remove far-flung wildcat settlements, which he said endangered Israel's security.
Under his so-called convergence plan tens of thousands of settlers will be uprooted from the occupied West Bank, while control over the large housing blocs which are home to the vast majority of the quarter-of-a-million-strong settler population is to be cemented.
Olmert hopes to establish permanent borders for Israel by 2010 by a unilateral separation from the Palestinians.
The six wildcat settlements identified by Maariv were Ramat Gilaad, Maale Rehavam, Givat Haroeh, Givat Assaf, Mitzpe Lakhish and Mitzpe Yitzhar.
According to an official report there are 105 unauthorized Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which the international community consider to be illegal.
In February hardline settlers resisted with force the dismantlement of nine illegally built homes in the West Bank settlement of Amona, with 250 people injured in clashes.