Plan includes 793 units in e. J'lem neighborhoods Gilo, Har Homa, Pisgat Ze'ev, as well as 394 units in the West Bank.

The Iron Dome defense system intercepted and shot down a Grad rocket aimed at the Israeli southern city of Eilat early on Tuesday.

Spokeswoman: Authorization of new units purely technical.

The recent EU guidelines which forbid its 28 member states to cooperate with Israeli entities beyond the Green Line ‘’are undermining peace’’ by hardening Palestinian positions,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle Monday.

Israel on Monday published a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners set to go free within days, some after spending more than two decades behind bars, as part of a deal that led to a resumption of the US-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

The Eilat Airport was reopened Thursday night two hours after it was ordered closed for security reasons.

Four Israeli soldiers were wounded when an explosive device went off at the border with Lebanon near Rosh Hanikra.

Police evacuate worshipers after disturbances between visitors.

Police give okay to women's activist group after Orthodox girls blocked Women of the Wall prayer service last month.

No reason given for cancellation of PLO, Fatah meeting in Ramallah.