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The E1 debate is not just about West Bank settlement construction - it’s about security - opinion

US policymakers should stop treating E1 as an Israeli-Palestinian real-estate dispute. It is about who controls the roads, high ground, and military corridors in Israel.

A general view picture shows houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the West Bank February 15, 2017
 A construction site of a new residential neighborhood at the mixed religious-secular Jewish settlement in the West Bank Kfar Adumim, March 9, 2023.

Jewish settlement is a strategic necessity across the West Bank - opinion

Jailed Fatah member Marwan Barghouti 311

Marvel stars join campaign to free Barghouti, but ignore his victims - opinion

Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.

The E1 area: The strategic link between Jerusalem and Israel’s eastern border - opinion


Israel's newest amusement park brings 'Magic' to Jerusalem outskirts

Magic Kass, which opened two months ago in a town 30 minutes from Jerusalem, is like nothing else in Israel.

 The new Magic Kass indoor amusement park in Maale Adumim

Israeli building in E1 will thwart Palestinian state, NGOs tell IDF

'Israeli construction on E1 harms Palestine’s future growth potential and therefore closes the door to the possibility of a peace agreement,' architect Uri Reicher told the Civil Administration.

The E1 territory, located outside of Jerusalem and within the jurisdiction of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement

Police investigating suspected murder of woman in Maale Adumim

Police are investigating a suspected murder which took place in mid-September in Maale Adumim.

 Israeli police at a temporary checkpoint in Gilboa area, as they search for the six Palestinian fugitives who escaped from a high security prison in Northern Israel yesterday.  September 7, 2021.

Attorney, NGOs boycott E1 hearing over lack of access for Palestinians

An attorney and pro-Palestinian NGOs boycotted a Civil Administration hearing Monday on plans to build close to 3,500 settler homes in the contentious area in Ma'aleh Adumim.

 View of Route 1, the Maaleh Adumim-Jerusalem road, from the West Bank area known as E1, with Jerusalem's Mount Scopus seen on the horizon, on December 10, 2019.

IDF to hold hearing on contentious E1 settler building project

Left wing organizations, as well as the international community, see the project as harmful to Palestinians, while the right sees it as a security insurance policy.

 View of the desert near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, January 26, 2021.

In time for Sukkot, a big new amusement park opens outside Jerusalem

The park is one of only nine indoor amusement parks in the world, and seeks to offer a glamourous experience emulating the likes of Disney, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

 The new Magic Kass indoor amusement park in Maale Adumim

The new DCity Mall is much more than just a mirage in the desert

Spread over 150,000 square meters, and with an investment of some NIS 750 million, DCity holds some 200 storefronts, a food court with top restaurants, and a luxury hotel.

 DCITY INCLUDES some 200 storefronts, as well a food court and a luxury hotel is in the works.

Israel's fanciest new mall opens in the Judean desert

The new DCity, which opened this week on the outskirts of Jerusalem, is designed as a replica of the famous Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.

 The new D-City mall.

Will Israel's fanciest new mall thrive in the Judean desert?

Some wonder whether building the largest design mall in the Middle East in the desert, over the green line, can be a viable project.

The D City design mall in Ma'aleh Adumim (illustrative).

Arrivals: Dr. Barbara Gordon-Cohen

“I feel Hashem’s [God’s] guidance more and His presence. On a spiritual level, I feel very contented and happy. I feel it in the air. I feel it in the land.”

Dr. Barbara Gordon-Cohen