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.

The far-right minister said he will approve 3,000 new homes in the E1 area project, hailing it as ‘Zionism at its best’.

MAALE ADUMIM: Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said work would start on a long-delayed settlement that would divide the West Bank and cut if off from East…

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich announced approval for 3,401 new homes in the controversial E1 area project in the occupied West Bank.

“This reality finally buries the idea of a Palestinian state, because there is nothing to recognize and no one to recognize," Bezalel Smotrich said.

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to annex the occupied West Bank if the international community recognizes the...

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

Israeli Finance Minister approves settlement plan dividing East Jerusalem from West Bank, burying Palestinian state idea, sparking international backlash.

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he believes E1 plan will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’

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…

Next week, the cabinet is expected to give final approval to a construction plan for the E1 region, which would cut the West Bank in two, separating the northern part from the…