Today it is a city of more than 30,000 people, with red-roofed apartment blocks, shopping malls, a public swimming pool and ancient olive trees sitting on neat roundabouts.
The rise of Ma'ale Adumim captures the success of Israel's vast settlement project and the extent of the challenge posed to any future Palestinian state by the settlements and the often overlooked infrastructure of Israel's occupation.



Eight-year-old Jad Suleiman was walking home from school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza...
The numbers “8647” appeared in large scale on the grass of the National Mall on Thursday,...
Ukraine is increasing defense and security spending by UAH 1.56 trillion ($34.6 billion), bringing total 2026...





























