Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's far-right finance minister said on Wednesday that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the occupied West Bank, land the Palestinians seek for a state, ...

Cleary is an editor at TIME, based in the London bureau. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a map of an area near the settlement of Maale Adumim, a land corridor known as E1, outside ...

STORY: Israeli far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday announced work would start on a planned Jewish settlement in a key spot in the occupied West Bank. And he said the move had a ...

Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said on Thursday that a plan to significantly expand a settlement near occupied East Jerusalem had won approval. But a procedural step remained. By Ephrat Livni ...

Bezalel Smotrich made an announcement that directly highlights the Israeli government’s intention to undermine the possibility of creating a Palestinian state. The resumption of the E1 settlement ...

Israel’s far-right finance minister said on Wednesday that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the occupied West Bank, land the Palestinians seek for a state, although it was unclear if ...