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Topic: Ma’ale Adumim

March 8, 2013
12:48 am

A Holocaust survivor at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Slur leads to fight at Yad Vashem

Teenage students ambush a 15-year-old from a different high school; one guard lightly hurt

By Times of Israel staff

March 1, 2013
9:35 pm

Former White House deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams (photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)

Elliott Abrams: Kerry wrong to push for a permanent accord

Senior official in George W. Bush administration also says Israel should not have opposed Palestinians’ UN gambit, and that Olmert’s claim he was close to a peace deal is a ‘mirage’

By Raphael Ahren

January 22, 2013
12:42 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listening as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in Washington in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

‘Netanyahu-Obama relationship must be healed’

US Jewish leader: Obama’s reported statement about Israel’s ‘best interests’ was ‘payback’ for Netanyahu’s alleged support for Romney

By Haviv Rettig Gur

January 20, 2013
6:22 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 2013. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahu: Iran, not settlements, the real security threat

Prime minister reiterates promise not to uproot West Bank Jewish communities if reelected

By Adiv Sterman

January 19, 2013
5:24 pm

With Google and Apple services, Israel enters new digital era

Street View and iTunes music and video downloads now finally available, Apple TV on sale, and iTunes Match likely coming soon; don’t hold your breath for US TV series, though

By David Shamah

January 17, 2013
12:43 am

Pro-Palestinian activists place Palestinian flags in the new outpost of Bab el-Shams (Gate of the Sun) in the area known as E1, near Jerusalem, Saturday. (photo credit: AP)

Israel dismantles E1 Palestinian outpost, activists say

Move comes hours after court says security needs outweigh fact that makeshift tent village may have been set up on private land

By Joshua Davidovich

January 12, 2013
6:30 pm

Netanyahu urges court to allow evacuation of E1 tent city

Access to outpost between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim blocked as PM awaits response to state’s motion to allow security forces to dismantle it

By Michal Shmulovich

January 11, 2013
4:05 pm

Palestinian activists on January 11 set up an 'outpost' named Bab al-Shams ("Gate of the Sun") in the area of the West Bank between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim known as E1. (photo credit: Flash90)

Palestinians build outpost in West Bank tract slated for settlement

Organizers erect 20 tents in E1 area, located between Jerusalem, Maaleh Adumim, say they’re there to stay

By Ilan Ben Zion

January 4, 2013
7:48 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves to Fatah supporters during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the movement's founding in Ramallah, December 31 (photo credit: Issam RImawi/Flash90)

Israel’s East Jerusalem construction plans crossed red line, says PA president

Abbas says it is the Palestinian’s right and duty to do “everything possible” to oppose new building

By Times of Israel staff and AP

December 26, 2012
10:55 pm

The unilateral disengagement of the American titans of peace

Exhausted, resigned, disillusioned, two-staters are pivoting away from the Middle East

By Mark Donig

December 25, 2012
6:11 am

Israel will build in Jerusalem no matter the criticism, vows senior minister

If Israel’s international critics learned more about Jewish history in the city, at least their condemnations would not ‘come out of ignorance,’ Uzi Landau says

By Raphael Ahren

December 18, 2012
9:27 pm

A construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

US denounces Israeli plans to build in East Jerusalem and settlements; Europe set to follow suit

State Department accuses Israel of engaging in a ‘pattern of provocative action’

December 18, 2012
6:07 pm

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Pressure ramps up, but Netanyahu says East Jerusalem construction to go ahead

Knesset speaker says E1 area will stay under Israeli control, scolds EU for worrying more about Palestinian statehood than secure Israel

By Greg Tepper and AP

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 18, 2012
1:57 am

A Bedouin camp located in the E1 area, between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, in December 2012. (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

400 American rabbis, cantors blast E1 building plans

In move coordinated by left-wing advocacy groups, letter warns building plans could signal ‘final blow to a peaceful solution’ between Israel and the Palestinians