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Topic: Yair Gabai

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 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 5, 2012
2:14 pm

An Israeli police station in the E1 area, east of Jerusalem (photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Civil Administration officially approves E1 building plan

The public has two months to petition against the proposed construction of some 3,000 housing units east of the capital, which many claim will kill the 2-state solution

By Stuart Winer and Gabe Fisher

December 5, 2012
10:58 am

A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in south Jerusalem, October 2, 2011. (photo credit: Uri Lenz / Flash90.)

Despite international pressure, 900 new homes in Gilo are in the works

Planning meeting scheduled Wednesday for the most controversial of all the new housing proposals, in the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim

By Stuart Winer