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.



On Thursday morning, a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from war-torn Gaza – many without the...
Ukraine and Greece signed an agreement in Athens on Sunday for the provision of US-supplied liquefied...





























