Israel's Population and Immigration Authority said the addition of 3,000 workers will be a significant boost to the construction industry in Israel.

The plan will focus on increasing the Jewish population in the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley.

The U.S. administration is said to be pressuring Israel's coalition government to nix or minimize the plan.

Plug-and-play housebuilding innovator Veev announced that it raised $400 million in Series D funding.

The European Union condemns the move, ordered by the Israeli prime minister on Jan. 11, as 'contrary to international law.'

Tell European diplomats to stop meddling in Israeli affairs by trying to prevent the construction of new homes in Jerusalem.

European diplomats meddling in Israeli internal affairs got an earful from activists in Jerusalem's Givat Hamatos neighborhood.

The final day for submitting proposals is January 18, 2021, three days before Joe Biden is slated to be sworn into office.

Many of the permits are for small towns, not larger settlement blocs; three small towns were retroactively legalized.

'The ruling is the product of a protracted legal battle waged by the community…this is a historic and welcomed ruling,' Regavim stated. 

Huckabee laid bricks and spread cement in a new neighborhood in Efrat, where he said he may one-day 'purchase a holiday home.'

The back-to-back announcements of a total of 6,000 new housing units in Judea and Samaria within a single week is almost unprecedented.

The Trump administration did not condemn Israel for its announced plans to build housing units in Judea and Samaria, and the Palestinians are deeply upset.

Once again, the Obama administration has refused to recognize Israel's right to build in Judea and Samaria and appears to detest the right of Jews to live anywhere as it protests Israel's latest announcement over construction of new homes.

Israel is exercising its right according to international law to build housing for residents in territories it captured in a defensive war in 1967.

After UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov made ricidulous statements slamming Israeli construction in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem, Prime Minister Netanyahu fired back, calling his remarks 'absurd' and a distortion of history.

Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas threatened to rethink the peace accords with Israel and restated his list of preconditions for any further talks.