Ministers in the Israeli government have in recent months pushed for more rapid development of these settlements, explicitly ...

France has condemned Israel’s plan to build 3,400 new homes in the occupied West Bank, calling the project a “serious ...

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

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

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

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

France on Saturday condemned Israel's decision to build thousands of new homes in the West Bank and called on Israel to drop ...

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

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

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

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.

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