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Ma'ale Adumim

Illustrative: An empty classroom at a school in Safed, northern Israel, on August 31, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 15, 2026, 6:48 pm
Several cities keep schools shut despite revised guidelines allowing them to reopen
Ashkelon, Ariel and Dimona decide conditions are not yet suitable to reopen their education systems, though the Home Front Command designated them as areas at lower risk
By Rossella Tercatin
Undated photo of Ashgara Mengistu. (Israel Police)
January 21, 2026, 1:30 pm
Brother of former Hamas hostage found alive after going missing for three days
Ashgara Mengistu, 33, who disappeared after leaving his mother’s home in Ma’ale Adumim on Sunday, reportedly located on train in Kiryat Gat
By ToI Staff
Undated photo of Ashgara Mengistu. (Israel Police)
January 20, 2026, 10:40 pm
Brother of released Hamas captive Avera Mengistu goes missing
Police ask public for assistance in search for Ashgara Mengistu, 33, who disappeared after leaving his mother’s home in Ma’ale Adumim on Sunday
By ToI Staff
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
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
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
October 22, 2025, 6:19 pm
2 West Bank annexation bills get initial nod, with MKs rebelling against PM as Vance visits
Netanyahu’s Likud punishes Edelstein for casting decisive vote, dismisses bill as opposition ‘trolling,’ but also says it is working on creating right conditions for sovereignty
By Sam Sokol
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
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
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 14, 2025, 7:48 pm
World largely decries new settlement plan, warns it will scuttle 2-state solution
UN, Europe, Arab nations slam bid to resume building in contentious E1 area; US issues vague statement; Smotrich says move a response to Western push for Palestinian state
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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 14, 2025, 10:10 am
Smotrich says he’ll okay 3,000 homes east of Jerusalem, ‘burying idea of Palestinian state’
E1 settlement project that would split West Bank into north and south has been on hold for decades amid international pressure; settler leader hails ‘historical achievement’
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
View of Route 1 highway from Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem on October 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 30, 2025, 9:26 pm
Security cabinet greenlights separate road for Palestinians in contentious E1 area
Critics decry planned north-south route as a ‘fatal blow’ to local Palestinian communities, as cabinet moves to expand settlement construction between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Illustrative: The D-City design mall in Ma'aleh Adumim, outside Jerusalem, on August 20, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 20, 2025, 9:59 am
Despite low foot traffic, West Bank’s D-City design mall so far proving too big to fail
While the mall outside Jerusalem feels nearly empty, the home stores remain committed to maintaining a presence, and the event halls and entertainment centers keep operations afloat
By Zev Stub
Participants train in Krav Maga in Ma'ale Adumim, on June 26, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
July 20, 2024, 11:47 pm
Shaken by the Oct. 7 massacre, some Israelis turn to Krav Maga to learn self-defense
At Moshe Katz’s dojo in his basement in Ma’ale Adumim, men and women roleplay events from the Hamas onslaught to be better prepared for terrorist attack
By AFP
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