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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Bezalel Smotrich called for the territory's annexation after several nations revealed plans to recognise a Palestinian state.