Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich announced approval for 3,401 new homes in the controversial E1 area project in ...

Smotrich’s settlement plans come as the international spotlight on Israel intensifies, with growing calls for a cease-fire in ...

In a reversal of past US policy, the State Department backed the E1 project connecting Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, calling it ...

By Alexander Cornwell MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank/TEL AVIV, (Reuters) -Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ...

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved plans overnight for a settlement that would split East Jerusalem ...

Israel Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich boasted that the construction could thwart Palestinian statehood plans ...

Israel's far-right finance minister announced approval of the construction of a contentious settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that he says "buries the idea of a Palestinian state." ...

Controversial project that would split West Bank into north and south has been frozen for decades due to international ...

Israel is moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, ...

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The development would severely restrict Palestinians' ability to travel between the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem and eat up large tracts of land in the tiny region.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced he will be approving tenders for the construction of the long-halted ...