This is the first approval of its kind since the signing of the Hebron Agreement in 1997, under which restrictions related to the Jewish community were subject to approval by the Hebron municipality.

Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the withdrawal of key municipal planning authorities from Hebron's Palestinian...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that Israel has cancelled the Hebron agreements in the southern occupied West Bank and transferred their powers to Israeli…