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Topic: Ramat Shlomo

May 14, 2013
2:49 am

Air Force Col. Bill Knight, right, greets Barack Obama at Andrews Air Force Base on Monday before Obama boarded Air Force One to New York City for private fundraisers. (photo credit: AP/Ann Heisenfelt)

Chances for peace dwindling by the day, Obama says

Week before Kerry visit, US president tells party donors time is running short for Israelis and Palestinians to reach accord

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

May 13, 2013
6:11 pm

Bird's-eye view of Ramat Shlomo, March 1, 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to freeze ‘sensitive’ Jerusalem construction

Project in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo sparked a diplomatic row with the US during Biden’s visit in 2010

By Stuart Winer

May 8, 2013
12:08 pm

An iron key used to open a 2,000-year-old door, found in an ancient quarry in Jerusalem (photo credit: Clara Amit/Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ancient quarry, key unearthed in Jerusalem

The site in north Jerusalem yielded stones used for monumental construction around the time of the Second Temple, archaeologists say

By Matti Friedman

May 8, 2013
6:54 am

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visits Arab students in a newly opened elementary school in the Arab neighborhood of Umm Tuba, in East Jerusalem, December 13, 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/FLASH90)

One Jerusalem. Undivided. Open to all. Controlled by Israel

Mayor Nir Barkat says he’s repositioning the city to retake the role it fulfilled ‘amazingly well’ for a thousand years — where all peoples were equally accepted, but Jewish sovereignty was unquestioned

By David Horovitz

December 25, 2012
10:35 am

Gilo as seen from Bethlehem. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Panel approves new Gilo homes, pushes ahead with East Jerusalem building plans

Move comes after last week’s green light for thousands of homes across the Green Line in the capital’s Givat Hamatos and Ramat Shlomo neighborhoods

By Gabe Fisher

December 19, 2012
9:21 pm

Members of the United Nations Security Council (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

Security Council’s 4 EU members rebuke Israel for settlement activities

France, Germany, Portugal and the UK say construction plans undermine faith in Israel’s willingness to negotiate

By Ron Friedman and Adiv Sterman

December 19, 2012
4:46 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Asian ambassadors to Israel at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, December 19 (photo credit: Uri Lenz /Flash90)

‘All Israeli governments have built in Jerusalem. We’re not going to change that,’ PM tells envoys

Construction of 2,612 homes in East Jerusalem approved amid international condemnation

By Raphael Ahren and Gabe Fisher

December 19, 2012
2:03 pm

A Ramat Shlomo construction site, Tuesday, December 18 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

The gifts that keep on giving

Israel is once again denounced for settlement plans, Liberman still faces a looming indictment and another media outlet announces cutbacks

By Ron Friedman

December 18, 2012
9:51 pm

Efrat in the West Bank (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Housing Ministry to open bidding on West Bank settlement construction

Tenders will be for apartment units approved last month after UN recognition of Palestinian nonmember state

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 18, 2012
9:27 pm

A construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

US denounces Israeli plans to build in East Jerusalem and settlements; Europe set to follow suit

State Department accuses Israel of engaging in a ‘pattern of provocative action’

December 18, 2012
6:07 pm

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Pressure ramps up, but Netanyahu says East Jerusalem construction to go ahead

Knesset speaker says E1 area will stay under Israeli control, scolds EU for worrying more about Palestinian statehood than secure Israel

By Greg Tepper and AP

December 18, 2012
3:10 pm

Children playing in Ramat Shlomo in 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

You got some ‘splainin’ to do

Spokespeople’s skills are put to the test as the Finance Ministry gives rich port workers a raise, Israel doubles down on East Jerusalem building; and an army unit is still left doing reserve duty for Pillar of Defense

By Joshua Davidovich

December 18, 2012
9:05 am

An engineer surveys Har Homa. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Panel expected to approve more East Jerusalem construction

Project in Givat Hamatos neighborhood to include up to 2,600 housing units; City Hall says half of units to go to Arab residents

By Gabe Fisher and Ilan Ben Zion

December 17, 2012
7:35 pm

Workers build a home in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, June 2011 (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Panel approves 1,500 homes in East Jerusalem neighborhood

Move forward on project that sparked huge row with Biden in 2010 likely to again anger international community

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 3, 2012
11:48 pm

Workers build a home in Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood, June 2011 (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Amid rising tensions, Jerusalem city hall to okay thousands of new homes over Green Line

First new neighborhood since Har Homa planned in the south of the city; 1,700 apartments set for northern neighborhood

By Aaron Kalman