Responding to petition by locals opposed to building station on site known for springtime carpets of blue lupines, authorities tell court they're reviewing alternative locations

Givat Shaked project, slated to include 700 housing units, criticized for cutting off development options for adjacent Arab Beit Safafa neighborhood

District Planning and Building Committee approves project in Lower Aqueduct that breaks up contiguity between Sur Baher and Beit Safafa, complicating prospects for 2-state solution

Shaked claims that building meeting is delayed for only a week, while opposition MKs slam government for 'destructive measures' that are a 'surrender to terror'

Proposed neighborhood of Lower Aqueduct would include 1,465 units, with around half of the area in East Jerusalem

District Committee orders survey on environmental impact of new Haredi neighborhood near industrial zone, which could be lengthy process; Lapid promises non-controversial solution

US dismayed to find East Jerusalem housing project back on docket of planning committee's agenda for next week, after Israeli officials leaked that plan was shelved, sources say

Officials notify White House they won't move forward with plan to build 9,000 units on abandoned plot at northern tip of the capital, across the pre-1967 Green Line

PM's office says it wasn't notified before Housing Ministry placed controversial construction project on docket for early-stage approval

Unveiling details of new US embassy compound planned for city's Hebron Road, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum says plenty of empty space nearby for other countries to put down diplomatic roots