Israel decides to build 3,500 homes in West Bank. Supreme Planning Commission today approved the construction.

Projects announced about a week ago, following a Palestinian attack near Maaleh Adumim in which two Israelis were killed. ''In the last year - Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wrote on X - we have authorized 18,515 homes'' in the West Bank, according to the finance minister's office. Reproduction of this article is strictly prohibited in the U.S.