Fadi Salameh and his wife, Suheir, were buzzing with excitement. The young Palestinian couple were about to see their new, and almost finished, apartment for the first time. It was late 2014, and the ...

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The Associated Press reports this week on the arrival of the first families moving into Rawabi, a new city being built in the West Bank. Rawabi is a marvel in many ways. I visited there in January, ...

Elhanan Miller is the former Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel RAWABI, West Bank — If all goes according to plan, this summer 600 middle-class families will begin moving into their new ...

Is this privately financed city project in the heart of occupied West Bank a momentous trailblazer, or a colossal folly? Harriet Sherwood pays a visit In a hi-vis jacket and jeans, Shadia Jaradat ...

Bashar Masri, main investor of the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, in front of an apartment building under construction in Rawabi, West Bank, on Feb. 24, 2014. Bashar Masri, 54, looks pensive as he ...

Former Israel ambassador Dan Shapiro is urging President Trump to make a stop at Rawabi, the new gleaming middle class Palestinian city outside Ramallah, when he visits the Holy Land later this month.

In the unlikely setting of the West Bank's biblical landscape, amid stony hills and valleys where sheep and goats bleat under ancient olive trees, an urban planner's dream is taking shape. A gleaming ...

Sometime in the coming days a governmental committee is to convene to decide whether a new Qatari-funded Arab city in the heart of Samaria will be populated. It is currently expected that Israel will ...

It has all the hallmarks of the archetypal Israeli settlement. High-rise bleached stone buildings in neatly carved streets rise skywards from a spectacular hill top site. Verdant landscapes are ...