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

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

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 ...

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says he will approve thousands of housing units in a highly ...

It was not immediately clear if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed the plan to revive the long-frozen E1 scheme, which ...

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

The EU’s top diplomat urged Israel on Thursday “to desist” from a plan to build homes in a particularly contentious area of ...

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has advocated for the construction of 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement, said ...

Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said ...

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.

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