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 Iranian Foreign Ministry has denounced the Israeli Knesset’s passage of a bill seeking to assert the regime’s sovereignty over the West Bank and Jordan Valley, describing it as further evidence of ...

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.

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 an area in the West Bank, which is a territory Israel captured during the Six-Day War in 1967 and since has controlled. The West Bank got its name because it’s the western ...

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 ...

In March 2023, the Knesset plenum rejected the law to apply sovereignty in the Jordan Valley, after the coalition headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted against the bill.

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.

"The Jordan Valley is of great importance to the State of Israel - historically, security-wise and economically," an explanatory note for the bill says, noting that its location ...

Speaker of Jordan's lower house of parliament says Netanyahu's 'racist statements' require his country to chart a 'new path' in its ties with Israel ...

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, ...