Olmert curbs West Bank building
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has barred new construction work, building planning and occupancy tenders at West Bank settlements without his approval, documents show.
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Israel will likely begin a crackdown on Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank when U.S. President George W. Bush visits the region next week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's top deputy said on Friday.
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THE Israeli army has lifted some of the travel restrictions imposed on residents of West Bank towns for the funeral of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to walk away from his first visit to the United States without getting the Bush administration to put its heft behind Olmert&#039;s sweeping West Bank pullback plan.
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Israel should stop building its West Bank separation barrier if Palestinian militants halt attacks, Israel&#39;s president was quoted as saying Thursday, in the most high-profile criticism yet of the contentious project.
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Â· PM Ehud Olmert enforces news blackout on air raid Â· Target believed to have been nuclear project
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faces a criminal inquiry over his purchase of a Jerusalem house.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert rejects calls to halt excavations at a contentious Jerusalem holy site, Israeli media reports.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejects calls for a swift end to the Lebanon blockade, after talks with the UN chief.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has spurned an appeal from his defense minister to halt excavation work near Jerusalem's most important holy site, the Haaretz daily said on Thursday.
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The Israeli Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the government to re-route a section of its West Bank separation barrier, a defeat for the state after a 2 1/2-year legal battle that turned this village into a flashpoint of opposition to the contentious structure.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  has approved building tenders for 1,000 new homes in Jewish  settlements in the West Bank frozen earlier to avoid upsetting  the United States, political sources said on Thursday.
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The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected two efforts to change the route of the West Bank separation barrier in and around east Jerusalem.
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Israel announced plans yesterday for more than 500 new housing units in the West Bank, following an apparent US policy shift on Jewish settlements that has infuriated the Palestinians.
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JERUSALEM - Israel tightened security around Arab East Jerusalem and stopped thousands of West Bank Palestinians from praying at the revered Al-Aqsa mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan, but no violence was reported.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel announced yesterday that it would curtail offensive operations against Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to halt attacks on the Jewish state, marking a significant step toward a full-scale cease-fire between the two sides.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has spurned a call by his defense minister to consider halting excavations near Jerusalem's most sacred Islamic shrine that have angered Muslims, an official said on Thursday.