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File: MK Moshe Gafni, right, and then-health minister Yaakov Litzman in the Knesset, September 6, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 26, 2017, 5:04 pm
Ultra-Orthodox UTJ threatens to torpedo ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill
Party heads said to fear planned expansion of municipal borders will dilute religious voting power and lessen chance of controlling city hall
By TOI staff
A picture taken from the Israeli settlement of Kedar shows the West Bank Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim on October 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
October 26, 2017, 1:49 pm
PLO: Jerusalem ‘annexation’ plan means end of two-state solution
Hanan Ashrawi says 'Greater Jerusalem' bill to make settlements part of capital kills hopes for independent Palestinian state
By AFP and TOI staff
View of neighborhoods in Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, October 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 25, 2017, 3:06 pm
Ministers to vote next week on bill drawing key settlements into Jerusalem
Key committee to review plan expanding capital's municipality to include Ma’ale Adumim, Givat Ze’ev, Beitar Illit and Efrat
By TOI staff
Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz at a press conference held at the Ministry of Transportation on April 5, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 10, 2017, 7:52 pm
Likud minister backs absorbing settlements into Jerusalem
Yisrael Katz wants Ma'aleh Adumim, Etzion bloc and other major communities to be part of capital, but doesn't urge their full annexation
By Agencies
IDF troops arrest a Palestinian teenager suspected of being a member of a group that has thrown Molotov cocktails at West Bank highways over the past few months. (Screen capture: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
February 7, 2017, 8:04 pm
Israel charges alleged Palestinian Molotov cocktail gang
Seven teenagers from Beit Anan accused of multiple attacks on routes 443 and 446, north of Jerusalem
By Judah Ari Gross
A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in south-western East Jerusalem, October 2, 2011. (photo credit: Uri Lenz / Flash90)
January 26, 2017, 6:41 pm
Israel okays 153 homes in East Jerusalem neighborhood Gilo
Announcement comes 2 days after over 2,500 settlements housing units approved throughout the West Bank
By TOI staff and AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 25, 2017. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
January 25, 2017, 4:09 pm
New settlement homes are just a ‘taste,’ Netanyahu tells MKs
'We are going to be doing many things differently from now on,' prime minister says, confirms he'll discuss settlement building with Trump
By Raoul Wootliff
Building in 2014 at the settlement of Ariel (Flash 90)
January 24, 2017, 4:07 pm
Israel okays 2,500 new settlement homes, 2 days after PM talks to Trump
'We're building -- and will continue to build,' Netanyahu says; Liberman also seeks green light for Palestinian industrial zone
By Judah Ari Gross
A panoramic view of the Etzion Bloc region of the West Bank (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
January 22, 2017, 11:37 am
Challenging Netanyahu, senior minister floats annexation of Jerusalem-area settlements
Yisrael Katz pitches proposal after PM, citing a request from US administration, seeks delay of bill to annex Ma'ale Adumim
By TOI staff
A man watches his son during a training session of the Beitar Shabi Givat Zeev soccer club, in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Givat Ze'ev, near Jerusalem, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
September 26, 2016, 5:14 am
Settlement soccer clubs bring politics to the pitch
Palestinians are pushing FIFA to declare Israel's West Bank teams illegal, while Israelis contend they are operating according to existing accords
By Tia Goldenberg
A general view of the settlement Avnei Hefetz, east of Tulkarem, July 31, 2009 (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
August 31, 2016, 1:36 pm
Israel’s West Bank governing body okays 466 settlement homes
Planning committee approves new units in several communities, retroactively legalizes 179 homes in Ofarim
By TOI staff and AFP
The ultra-Orthodox city Modi'in Illit (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 16, 2016, 5:27 pm
Brushing aside PM’s denial, US raps Israel for new settlement homes
'All settlement activity is counterproductive,' says State Department, after Netanyahu claimed most of 229 purported new West Bank homes are 'upgrades only'
By Sue Surkes, AFP and TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a construction site in Tekoa, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, on September 7, 2014 (Flash90)
April 14, 2016, 3:27 pm
Israel denies report on accelerated settlement construction
Peace Now group says 229 new West Bank homes okayed, but Netanyahu and Ya'alon insist most approvals are 'upgrades only'
By Sue Surkes and AFP
Israeli security and rescue personnel attend the scene of a stabbing attack near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on January 30, 2016 (photo: Magen David Adom)
January 30, 2016, 5:47 pm
Israeli teen lightly hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack
Police detain two East Jerusalem minors suspected of attacking 17-year-old near the Damascus Gate
By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross
Assailant immediately before he stabbed Menachem Mendel Rivkin in Givat Ze'ev on January 27, 2016 (Channel 10 screenshot)
January 29, 2016, 10:29 pm
Terror victim shows improvement after Givat Ze’ev stabbing
Menachem Mendel Rivkin conscious and breathing unaided, 2 days after terror attack left him in serious condition
By TOI staff
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