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 southern part. After years of delay due to international pressure, the cabinet intends to approve a plan with dramatic, irreversible implications for the occupied territory's future.

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: Israel’s far-right finance minister announced a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday which Palestinians and rights…