Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut the occupied West Bank in ...

An Israel Defense Ministry planning committee gave approval Wednesday to a controversial settlement plan that would ...

The Foreign Ministry "rejects the attempt to impose foreign dictates upon it [Jerusalem]," it said Friday. Foreign ministers ...

"Smotrich has never made a more accurate prediction," said Haaretz (Tel Aviv). The E1 apartments "would cut the West Bank in ...

Israel has given final approval to a controversial plan to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank that effectively cuts the territory in two. Plans for settlement in E1 ...

Israel approved a controversial project to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank, billed as dashing hopes of Palestinian ...

Israel approved new settlements in the occupied West Bank, while its troops have reached the outskirts of Gaza City. The ...

The project, located in a tract of land known as E1 just east of Jerusalem, has been under discussion for more than two decades.

But a crucial roadblock — discouragement from the United States — was lifted last week when Ambassador Mike Huckabee said the United States would not oppose E1. Huckabee is a longtime support of ...

Ministers in the Israeli government have in recent months pushed for more rapid development of these settlements, explicitly as a rebuke to claims of Palestinian sovereignty.

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

Israel approved a major settlement project on Wednesday in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community ...