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Shlomi Eldar

Shlomi Eldar

Feb 26, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks to the U.S. Ambassador David Friedman during his visit to Ariel settlement in the West Bank, February 24, 2020. Sebastian Scheiner/Pool via REUTERS - RC287F98LHX4 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks with US Ambassador David Friedman during his visit to the Ariel settlement, West Bank, Feb. 24, 2020. — Sebastian Scheiner/Pool via REUTERS

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Israeli construction plan to encircle Jerusalem

Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

The silhouette of an Israeli boy is seen as he looks out from his home in Givat HaMatos on the southern fringes of Jerusalem's city limits May 17, 2012. Named after a plane that crashed there during the 1967 Six-Day War, Givat HaMatos may yet prove the place where Palestinian hopes of establishing a capital in Jerusalem also fall apart. Of all the obstacles blocking the way to peace between the Palestinians and Israelis, the status of Jerusalem is arguably the most intractable. Picture taken May 17, 2012. T

New Jerusalem Neighborhood Threatens Territorial Solution

Akiva Eldar

A crane lifts a concrete block for the construction of a section of the controversial Israeli barrier in Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem December 5, 2012. Israel moved forward on Wednesday with plans to build some 3,000 settler homes in one of the most sensitive areas of the occupied West Bank, the E1 corridor near Jerusalem, in defiance of international protests. Pisgat Zeev, in an area Israel annexed to Jerusalem after capturing it in the 1967 Middle East war, is seen in the back. REU

Jerusalem 2013

Dalia Hatuqa

An Israeli woman holds the Israeli flag at the entrance to Givat HaMatos, Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2020.

Israeli legislators keep low profile on East Jerusalem construction plans

Mazal Mualem

In Tel Aviv, reporting on politics