Maale adumim

Marvel stars join campaign to free Barghouti, but ignore his victims - opinion

Marvel stars are backing a campaign to free Marwan Barghouti, but the campaign leaves out the five people an Israeli court found he helped murder.

Jailed Fatah member Marwan Barghouti 311
Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.

The E1 area: The strategic link between Jerusalem and Israel’s eastern border - opinion

View of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on May 19, 2026.

International contention continues as eight more countries condemn Israel's E1 settlement plan

Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.

First 1,400 housing units to be marketed in controversial E1 area of West Bank


Police investigating suspected murder of woman in Maale Adumim

Police are investigating a suspected murder which took place in mid-September in Maale Adumim.

 Israeli police at a temporary checkpoint in Gilboa area, as they search for the six Palestinian fugitives who escaped from a high security prison in Northern Israel yesterday.  September 7, 2021.

Attorney, NGOs boycott E1 hearing over lack of access for Palestinians

An attorney and pro-Palestinian NGOs boycotted a Civil Administration hearing Monday on plans to build close to 3,500 settler homes in the contentious area in Ma'aleh Adumim.

 View of Route 1, the Maaleh Adumim-Jerusalem road, from the West Bank area known as E1, with Jerusalem's Mount Scopus seen on the horizon, on December 10, 2019.

IDF to hold hearing on contentious E1 settler building project

Left wing organizations, as well as the international community, see the project as harmful to Palestinians, while the right sees it as a security insurance policy.

 View of the desert near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, January 26, 2021.

In time for Sukkot, a big new amusement park opens outside Jerusalem

The park is one of only nine indoor amusement parks in the world, and seeks to offer a glamourous experience emulating the likes of Disney, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

 The new Magic Kass indoor amusement park in Maale Adumim

The new DCity Mall is much more than just a mirage in the desert

Spread over 150,000 square meters, and with an investment of some NIS 750 million, DCity holds some 200 storefronts, a food court with top restaurants, and a luxury hotel.

 DCITY INCLUDES some 200 storefronts, as well a food court and a luxury hotel is in the works.

Israel's fanciest new mall opens in the Judean desert

The new DCity, which opened this week on the outskirts of Jerusalem, is designed as a replica of the famous Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.

 The new D-City mall.

Will Israel's fanciest new mall thrive in the Judean desert?

Some wonder whether building the largest design mall in the Middle East in the desert, over the green line, can be a viable project.

The D City design mall in Ma'aleh Adumim (illustrative).

Arrivals: Dr. Barbara Gordon-Cohen

“I feel Hashem’s [God’s] guidance more and His presence. On a spiritual level, I feel very contented and happy. I feel it in the air. I feel it in the land.”

Dr. Barbara Gordon-Cohen

Netanyahu halts Ma’aleh Adumim garbage incinerator plan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on Sunday to reexamine the 4-year-old decision to build an incinerator near Kfar Adumim and Nofei Prat.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the Knesset, December 2, 2020

Gush Adumim garbage incinerator is pure negligence, dangerous for health

The plan to build this incinerator is dangerous – pure negligence by our leadership, and needs to be stopped immediately.

WHILE THE mayor assures Ma’aleh Adumim residents they have nothing to worry about because the plant will be far from their homes, this is untrue.