Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich previously approved plans for a settlement that would split east Jerusalem from the West ...

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced plans to build over 3,000 homes in the long-stalled E1 ...

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

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 ...

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas condemned Israel’s plan to build over 7,000 units in E1, stressing it would cut East Jerusalem from the West Bank, fuel tensions, and threaten the viability of a tw ...

Construction in E1 is great news for Jerusalem. We are taking responsibility for our future. The world may oppose it now - ...

Germany joins EU, UK, Arab states and rights groups in opposing West Bank construction that finance minister says will 'bury ...

This step, which will effectively separate the West Bank from East Jerusalem, disregards international law and United Nations ...

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 ...