JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Friday took over a seminary known for extremism in the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank, moving in a company of border police troops after radical settlers clashed with soldiers and destroyed army property there over the last week.

The extraordinary move came after a public outcry over the attacks on the army, and suggested the beginnings of a showdown between the Israeli authorities and violent Jewish settlers as tensions have grown in the area.

In recent years, extremist settlers have been attacking local Palestinians and their property, as well as the Israeli security forces deployed in large part to protect the settlers, as part of a policy the settlers call the “price tag.” The aggressive doctrine calls on settlers and their supporters to exact revenge for any army or police acts against unauthorized building in the settlement outposts and to deter the state from taking further action.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it chose to deploy troops in the seminary, the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva, “for operational reasons and because it had become a forward base for violent activities against nearby Palestinian villages and the security forces.”