Bezalal Smotrich, Israel’s far-right finance minister, said construction of a 10,000 or so square foot building for a Jewish school in Hebron’s historic core had been approved.

The move shifts planning authority in Jewish Hebron and key holy sites to Israeli bodies, ending decades-old arrangements tied to the 1997 protocol and Oslo process

JERUSALEM, June 16 (Reuters) - Israel has seized planning and construction powers at a Jewish and Muslim shrine in the occupied West Bank from the Palestinian Authority, scrapping…