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

Location of E1 is significant because it is one of the last geographical links between Bethlehem and Ramallah.

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

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday said his country would annex the occupied West Bank if the ...

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ...

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

Bezalel Smotrich said the approval of a construction plan “finally buries the idea” of statehood as countries including ...

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has warned that he will leave the government if Netanyahu proceeds with any deal with Hamas.

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

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is a second-generation West Bank settler who opposes a Palestinian state, talks of resettling Gaza, and uses his stature in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to ...

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