The Latest Breaking News from Bezalel Smotrich

Israel's far-right finance minister said on Sunday he would not agree to any freeze in settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli officials committed during a summit in Jordan to hold off on such construction in the coming months.

The Israeli government approved a multiyear draft general budget, to include an increase by around USD2.8 billion for a potential strike against Iran, following 36 hours of deliberations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted of approving the budget, saying that an agreement was reached on a multi-year plan for the security…

The Knesset passed legislation stripping citizenship of terrorists who earn pay from the PA as part of the "pay for slay" policy.

Israel's decision to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank came despite strong objections from the Biden adminstration.

Between Jericho and the Dead Sea, Israeli settlers rejoice after the government granted their outpost retroactive approval. An hour's drive north, others are beaten by officers evicting an unsanctioned settler vineyard.

Ministers from France, Germany, Italy and UK oppose the plan, saying it will increase tensions with the Palestinians.

Israel's finance minister says that his ultranationalist party would push to legalize all wildcat settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, a move likely to draw international outcry and condemnation

Many Jews in Samaria are afraid to take the bus where harassment has been reported on buses from Arab men against Israeli girls.

Israel granted retroactive authorization on Sunday to nine Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank and announced mass-construction of new homes within established settlements, moves likely to draw US admonition. The first to publish the decisions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet were two pro-settler politicians whose inclusion…