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 ...

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

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

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.

Bezalel Smotrich, who is sanctioned by Australia and the UK, says a controversial new development "definitively buries the ...

A far-right Israeli minister has backed controversial settlement plans in order to ensure there is “nothing left to recognise ...