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December 19, 2012
9:21 pm

Members of the United Nations Security Council (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

Security Council’s 4 EU members rebuke Israel for settlement activities

France, Germany, Portugal and the UK say construction plans undermine faith in Israel’s willingness to negotiate

December 18, 2012
9:51 pm

Efrat in the West Bank (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Housing Ministry to open bidding on West Bank settlement construction

Tenders will be for apartment units approved last month after UN recognition of Palestinian nonmember state

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 18, 2012
3:10 pm

Children playing in Ramat Shlomo in 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

You got some ‘splainin’ to do

Spokespeople’s skills are put to the test as the Finance Ministry gives rich port workers a raise, Israel doubles down on East Jerusalem building; and an army unit is still left doing reserve duty for Pillar of Defense

By Joshua Davidovich

December 18, 2012
9:20 am

A view of the Jewish West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, with the controversial E1 tract in the background (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

West Bank land, empty but full of meaning

From the web The New York Times investigates the claims and counter claims regarding the E1 corridor

December 17, 2012
4:47 pm

Shuafat, in northern Jerusalem, as viewed from the air. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Members of Jerusalem Hamas-affiliated cell indicted on multiple charges

In separate incident, three Arab youths arrested for assaulting man in Old City

By Asher Zeiger

December 13, 2012
12:19 pm

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk towards the Damascus gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May, 2010 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH9)

Three Arab teens arrested for attack on Jewish man

East Jerusalem youths say they decided to carry out assault after Jews beat them up

By Stuart Winer

December 6, 2012
2:23 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for talks at the Chancellery in Berlin, Thursday Dec. 6 (photo credit: AP/Wolfgang Rattayl)

‘We agreed that we disagree’ on settlement expansion, Merkel says after meeting with PM

In Germany, Netanyahu insists Israel will retain controversial E1 corridor ‘under any future peace deal’

By Ron Friedman and AP

December 4, 2012
10:11 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the National Public Diplomacy Forum about the IDF's Operation Pillar of Defense on Tuesday. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Root of the conflict is not settlements, but Israel’s very existence, Netanyahu says

If Israel goes ahead with plans to build in E1 area east of Jerusalem, then two-state solution ‘is over,’ Palestinians charge as international anger mounts

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 4, 2012
2:58 pm

An actress dressed up as former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir performs at the Knesset in February (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knee-deep in diplo doo-doo

Israel’s press builds up the drama surrounding the European condemnation of settlement expansion plans, the nurses continue their strike, and judges tell actors to butt out

By Ron Friedman

December 3, 2012
11:48 pm

Workers build a home in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, June 2011 (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Amid rising tensions, Jerusalem city hall to okay thousands of new homes over Green Line

First new neighborhood since Har Homa planned in the south of the city; 1,700 apartments set for northern neighborhood

By Aaron Kalman

December 2, 2012
1:30 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu leading the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday. (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu, citing Rabin precedent, says Israel will continue to build in settlements

Ban Ki-moon issues harsh critique of PM’s plan, saying it would be an ‘almost fatal blow’ to prospects of a two-state solution

By Gabe Fisher

December 1, 2012
4:58 pm

Turkey Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (photo credit: AP/Hakan Goktepe/Turkish Foreign Ministry)

Israel destroying Middle East peace process, Ankara charges

Independent Palestine necessary for regional stability, Foreign Minister Davutoğlu says