יום שלישי, כ״ח אב תשפ״וTuesday, August 11, 2026
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Israel also offered humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, as well as the establishment of medical centers for the welfare of the residents of the region.
Smotrich called it "an appropriate Zionist response."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Before Oct. 7, more than 95,000 PA Arabs worked in Israel's building sector.
Hotels near the Red Sea water line can now be constructed up to 20 stories instead of eight, or to a height of 60 meters (200 feet).
430 apartments are planned for the town of Elazar, including 15 to rectify the destruction of the Netiv Ha'Avot neighborhood.
Netanyahu, Galant and Smotrich are in agreement.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. administration is said to be pressuring Israel's coalition government to nix or minimize the plan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Kedmat Tzion is to be home to 400 families.
By Josh Hasten
After more than two decades of planning, bureaucratic hurdles and court petitions filed by opponents, the Jewish Community of Hebron is on the cusp of laying the foundations for 31 new housing units in the city’s historic Hezekiah Quarter.
Approximately half the homes with be small apartments between 45-75 square meters each.
In addition, over 1,000 units were approved throughout Gush Etzion.
The minister from Meretz called on the city to stop and dismantle all their beachfront construction.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new apartments will be located in the Nofei Sela East area and will include three, four, and five-room apartments and 170 homes with gardens and land for public institutions.
The new project comes as the entire face of Jerusalem is changing.
The Marom Tower will have 40 floors, 80,000 square meters of office and commercial space, a hotel and conference facilities. The first 8 floors of the tower will host a cultural center, art galleries and a museum.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It's funny how the Europeans think they have any moral authority.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Israel will continue the standard policy of natural growth,” Bennett said.
By Josh Hasten
Some view the approvals as a positive development; others expressed disappointment, indicating that the 31 new projects—with just five residential homes—fall far short of expectations.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
While still higher than the rest of the country, growth rates in Judea and Samara have been declining.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The number of settlement homes approved in 2020 is more than 12,150.
A celebration in Gush Etzion: Around 1,100 housing units approved as part of construction plans for Pnei Kedem, Kfar Eldad, Metzad, and Har Gilo.
Watch had Herod built the Second Temple!
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The construction plan, which will effectively connect Ma'aleh Adumim to Jerusalem, was frozen by Netanyahu for years following international criticism that it would harm a prospective Palestinian state.
Photos from the construction of the Ramon International Airport in Timna valley, in southern Israel.
By JNi.Media
Peace Now reports remind us of the joke about the Jewish guy reading Der Stürmer in 1936 Berlin.
A man does construction work in a tunnel underneath buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Will the Israeli Supreme Court grant the residents the three months needed to prepare their new homes?
By JNi.Media
'Instead of police writing them tickets and removing those flags from the vehicles, they are providing them with an entourage.'
Workers are currently destroying Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv.
By JNi.Media
The Netanyahu cabinet has been extra careful not to provoke the ire of the retiring emperor on the eve of that portion of his term when he no longer needs to worry about the Jewish vote.
By Batya Medad
How could it have happened? Apparently, the owner decided to add a garden on top and like many of us, figured that "a garden doesn't weigh much" without properly checking engineering ramifications.
By JNi.Media
The State Dept. announcement completely ignores the Israeli government's effort on behalf of Israeli Arabs in Jerusalem
By JNi.Media
"At the Israel Postal Company, for instance, some 69 percent of the complaints were found to be justified."
Rav Bezalel Rudinsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Reuven and Darchei Noam of Monsey, has joined the American-style community in Ramat Givat Zeev.
Some fifty Hareidi men stand in protest at a construction site in Gilo where ancient grave were found while digging. They believe the bodies found are of Jews, and do not want them moved for the construction of new housing units that were planned for the site.
By JNi.Media
To get an idea of the sheer ambition of the new project: currently there are about 300 families living in Harish, and the plan calls for more than 50,000 residents there by 2020.
By JNi.Media
Residents of Hai Taieb Street objected to the plans that would change the character of their street and overwhelm the infrastructure.
Hareidi Jews block a bulldozer as they protest at a construction site in Jerusalem on January 19, 2015. They're protesting against what they claim is the desecration of ancient graves which were discovered at a housing construction site in Jerusalem. If only these guys would come out when Jewish homes are being destroyed, and not […]
Slowly but surely, the truth wins, which is why Obama is losing.
By Rachel Levy
The United States has -- again -- expressed its strong disapproval over the latest plans to build badly-needed housing in Jerusalem.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Liberman (L) speaks with Israel's Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel during a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new Synagogue in the community of Nokdim in Eastern Gush Etzion, on October 23, 2014. Nokdim is Liberman's home town. This is what we think they spoke about.
Aides to US President Barack Obama expressed displeasure today over not being informed of plans to assemble tens of thousands of makeshift residential structures over the last week in Jewish communities in areas both Israel and the Palestinians claim.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli police revealed on September 30 that they are now investigating the possibility that a fellow Arab worker may have cut the cable that held Arami as he was doing exterior work on a building.
Construction of thousands of new homes for Jerusalem Arabs was approved Wednesday by a city development committee.
The local Jerusalem council has approved this morning (Wednesday) the construction of 40 new apartments in Pisgat Ze'ev, and 146 in Har Homa Gimel.
The greatest growth was registered in the smaller communal settlements, some of which are in very remote locations.
The Defense Ministry announced Monday it already has approved the planning stage for new homes already announced for construction in Judea and Samaria. The reporting by run-of-the-mill media of every announcement and step in the bureaucratic procedure for new homes in Judea and Samaria gives the impression that Israelis building double or triple the actual […]
By Soeren Kern
The Muslim Association of Iceland now admits that foreign donors will be paying for the mosque's construction costs.
The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.
Israel's housing minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) has given final approval to the construction of more than 1,000 apartments in Jewish Judea and Samaria and in East Jerusalem, three days before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are to resume in Jerusalem, and two days before the release of the first batch of Palestinian terrorists with Jewish blood […]
By JTA
The Kremlin’s human rights council is reviewing a prison sentence meted out to Ilya Farber, a Jewish schoolteacher convicted of corruption. The regional court of Ostashkov, north of Moscow, sentenced Farber last week to seven years in jail after convicting him of receiving $13,000 in bribes from a construction company. The company was seeking permission […]
Thanks to Peace Now, we now know that there will be 1000 more homes available for Jewish families in Judea and Samaria. It's a start.
By Batya Medad
As many new homes as we build, there's still a housing shortage in Shiloh. Jewish families of all ages, from all over the world want to live here.
Construction of ninety new apartments in Beit El has been given approval by the Ministry of Defense. The construction is part of the 300 apartment compensation plan for Beit El following the evacuation of the Givat Ulpana neighborhood. As tenders have already begin to be issued, construction could begin in just a few months time.
"In any conceivable political arrangement, Israel will not cede control of E-1."
August 7, 2026 
