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

Israel's far-right finance minister announced approval of the construction of a contentious settlement in the ...

Israel’s far-right finance minister announced approval Thursday of contentious new settlement construction in the ...

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

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's controversial E1 settlement project in the West Bank threatens to disrupt future ...

"The plan is the 'final nail in the coffin' for the concept of a Palestinian state," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ...

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.

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

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

Standing at the site of the planned settlement in Maale Adumim on Thursday, Smotrich, a settler himself, said Prime Minister ...

IDF intercepts missile from Yemen * Gazan arrested at West Bank checkpoint on suspicion of attempting stabbing attack * Hamas ...

Despite years of international pressure against a move that would forestall a Palestinian state, Israel's E1 settlement ...