<div><p>The Israeli cabinet Sunday approved listing some Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as "national priority zones," entitling the communities to millions of dollars of extra state funding.</p><p>The decision is certain to stir furore as it comes just weeks after Israel instituted a 10-month moratorium on ...

<div id="subtitle">Israel's defense minister seeks inspectors to enforce settlement construction freeze</div><div><p>Israel's defense minister on Sunday ordered his office to triple the number of construction inspectors in the West Bank to enforce a new settlement freeze declared by the government, while settler leaders vowed to ...

<div><p>Settlers and members of Israel's ruling rightwing party were seething on Sunday over a government decision to impose a temporary ease on West Bank settlement building after months of US pressure.</p><p>In an act of defiance, Gershon Messika, the director of a regional settlement council in the ...