The E1 plan is expected to receive final approval on Aug. 20, capping off 20 years of bureaucratic wrangling. The planning ...

Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied ...

The U.N. human rights office said the plan would put nearby Palestinians at risk of forced eviction, which it described as a ...

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

Germany on Friday called on the Israeli government to stop settlement construction in the West Bank after Israel's far-right ...

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

A Israeli housing project in the West Bank mothballed since 2012 was revived by the finance minister in a quest to prevent ...

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) -Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved plans overnight for a settlement that would ...

Plans to develop the illegal E1 settlement, which would jeopardise a future Palestinian state, widely condemned.

JERUSALEM – Israel’s finance minister backed plans on Thursday to build 3,400 homes in a particularly contentious area of the ...