abstract: We consider the ground state of the quantum Ising model with tranverse field $h$ in one dimension in a finite volume $\Delta{m}:={-m,-m+1,?,m+L}$ . Making use of a representation of the model in terms of a Gibbs random field in 1+1 dimension, for values of the external field sufficiently large, we prove a bound for the entaglement of the interval $\Lambda{L}:={0,..,L}$ relative to its complement $\Delta{m}\backslash\Lambda{L}$ which is uniform in $m$ and $L$. The bound is established by means of a suitable cluster expansion. Joint work with M. Campanino.