(JTA) — Israel’s government advanced a plan to build as many as 700 new apartment units in a suburb of Jerusalem that opponents say encroaches on a Palestinian village that straddles the ...

Peace Now says the development of 974 new housing units would allow the population of the Efrat settlement to expand by 40 percent and further block the development of the nearby Palestinian city of ...

Some held signs that read, “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, it is because of the Arnona.” House and calculator ... but added that when the plan was implemented, it became clear that for ...

Residents of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof are fighting a plan to construct three sixteen-story towers at the entrance to the Jerusalem forest. The plan calls for the towers to be ...

Reporter Adam Kredo gets to the bottom of the mystery over why the White House changed photo captions to remove references to Jerusalem as part of Israel. WASHINGTON (JTA/Washington Jewish Week ...

Early plans by the Housing Ministry envisioned 10,000 housing units, but the Jerusalem Municipality pushed for a more suburban character. The neighborhood’s architectural style also drew ...