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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 5, 2026, 6:39 pm
85 House Dems urge Trump to back up anti-annexation rhetoric with action against E1 settlements
In letter to Rubio obtained by ToI, US lawmakers warn ‘window for meaningful intervention’ against project, which cuts off Palestinian contiguity in the West Bank, is rapidly closing
By Jacob Magid
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 West Bank settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 9, 2026, 5:24 pm
Germany calls on Israel to halt E1 West Bank settlement plan, warns of instability risk
IDF arrests two Palestinian brothers after attempted settler attack on West Bank village; no Israelis detained; military probing series of overnight attacks on Palestinian school, vehicles
By Reuters, Stav Levaton and Noam Lehmann
View of the area of the planned E1 project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, seen August 21, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
January 7, 2026, 4:27 am
Last hurdle cleared to start controversial E1 settlement project near Jerusalem
Government issues tender for 3,401 housing units in area east of capital, which both critics and proponents say will effectively block a contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank
By AP and ToI Staff
New buildings at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
November 9, 2025, 3:29 pm
Tenders for record number of West Bank settlement housing units published in 2025
Some 5,667 housing units will be built when the tenders are awarded, will house 25,000 residents; previous high was in 2018 when tenders for just over 3,800 homes were published
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a signing ceremony for the E1 settlement project in Ma'ale Adumim on September 11, 2025. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
September 12, 2025, 1:21 pm
At Ma’ale Adumim, Netanyahu buried the two-state solution
Paperwork signed by PM in settlement city east of Jerusalem enables construction in E1 area, intended to house 20,000 Israelis within 10-15 years, ensuring no territorial contiguity for Palestinians
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he arrives to attend a signing ceremony for a framework agreement to speed up development in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, September 11, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
September 11, 2025, 11:38 pm
‘There will be no Palestinian state’: Netanyahu signs plan for E1 settlement expansion
PM declares ‘this place belongs to us’ during signing ceremony in Ma’ale Adumim, as Smotrich vows that the next step is annexation of the West Bank
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A picture taken from the E1 corridor, a sensitive area of the West Bank, looking eastward towards the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim with the Jordan Valley in the background, June 30, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
September 7, 2025, 4:56 pm
Netanyahu to sign E1 ‘framework agreement’ in Ma’ale Adumim this week – report
Ma’ale Adumim mayor insists time is ripe for annexing West Bank, but says he’s unaware of intention to ink a deal with the PM on plan for controversial settlement expansion
By Jeremy Sharon
A picture taken from the E1 corridor, a sensitive area of the West Bank, looking eastward towards the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim with the Jordan Valley in the background, June 30, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
August 29, 2025, 12:51 am
Cabinet to reportedly discuss partial West Bank annexation at upcoming meeting
Some ministers said to be pushing for annexation process to start before UN General Assembly next month, when France and other nations have pledged to recognize a Palestinian state
By Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and AFP
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 West Bank settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 25, 2025, 11:08 pm
E1 settlement project widely condemned, but is it fatal to two-state solution idea?
Critics of the E1 plan say it cuts the West Bank in two, and severs the territory from East Jerusalem, though some argue these obstacles can be overcome
By Jeremy Sharon
View of the area of the planned E1 project between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim West Bank city, August 21, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
August 24, 2025, 3:37 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 24: Day 688 – Why both sides call E1 the end of the two-state solution
Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon delves into the controversy surrounding the newly approved West Bank project and breaks down a new UN agency declaration of famine in Gaza
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 22, 2025, 3:39 am
Britain, France lead 21 countries in joint condemnation of new settlement project
UK summons ambassador to denounce Jerusalem’s approval of West Bank’s E1, which US Ambassador Huckabee says was a response to Western nations’ plans to recognize Palestinian state
By AFP and Jacob Magid
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
August 20, 2025, 4:58 pm
Smotrich rejoices as settlement plan that ‘erases 2-state delusion’ gets final greenlight
Minister fetes ‘historic’ approval of controversial construction scheme in West Bank’s E1 area, upending a decades-long freeze; PA says move divides West Bank into ‘prisons’
By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies
Demonstrators block a road during a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas and calling for the Israeli government to reverse its decision to take over Gaza City and other areas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
August 17, 2025, 3:26 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 17: Day 681 – Can mass strike for hostages restart release talks?
Political reporter Tal Schneider on a day of protests across Israel as PM Netanyahu doubles down on all-or-nothing offer to Hamas, plus Denmark premier’s threat of sanctions
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Tal Schneider
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen delivers her speech as Denmark holds the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe, July 8, 2025 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Pascal Bastien)
August 16, 2025, 7:58 pm
Netanyahu has become a ‘problem,’ says Danish PM, wants EU to weigh sanctions
Center left leader Mette Frederiksen affirms support for Israel, but says it has gone ‘too far’; France blasts E1 settlement plan as ‘colonization,’ ‘serious violation’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 15, 2025, 4:13 pm
UN human rights office: E1 plan is illegal, settling occupied land is a war crime
Germany joins EU, UK, Arab states and rights groups in opposing West Bank construction that finance minister says will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’; Netanyahu still mum
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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