In the occupied Jordan border region, Bedouins are almost completely defenseless against attacks by Israeli settlers. Since ...

The announcement came just hours after Knesset lawmakers passed a non-binding resolution in favor of applying Israeli sovereignty to the area.The post Israel to invest $138m in Judea and Samaria ...

The Zionist Knesset’s vote on a motion calling for imposing Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and the Jordan Valley is ...

Palestinian shepherds play near a spring near the Jewish settlement of Pazael in the Jordan Valley on Jan. 16, 2014. The Jordan Valley is a contentious issue in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian ...

The Jordan Valley is the exception. About 55 Jewish families, 7 percent of the total, have moved out of the valley in the last year. Others say they are considering it seriously, ...

Palestinians in the Jordan Valley have been left in the dark about how annexation would affect them. Many worry that it could block them from their farmlands, ...

The Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea are considered strategically vital zones by Israel for security. If Israel annexed them, it would encircle any future Palestinian state in the West Bank.

The decline of the river has had profound social and environmental consequences for the Jordan Valley. It has reduced habitats for the 500 million birds migrating each year from Europe to Africa.

JORDAN VALLEY—For three decades, Israeli date farmer Yaakov Elbaz has slept with an M16 close to his bed and a pistol under his pillow, ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the Israeli Knesset's vote endorsing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the Jordan Valley. The Ministry said the ...