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

Israel Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich boasted that the construction could thwart Palestinian statehood plans ...

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

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

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

Israel has announced it will build an enormous settlement in the West Bank to effectively “bury the idea of a Palestinian ...

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

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.

Israel appears poised to grant formal planning approval for the long-stalled E1 settlement project — a highly contentious ...

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

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