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Demonstrators protest plan to build homes on popular Jerusalem nature site

25 June 2020, 5:52 pm Edit

Some 150 people, most of them teenagers, stage a noisy demonstration outside a meeting of the national planning committee in Jerusalem while it discusses an appeal against a decision by district planners last year to allow the construction of more than 5,000 residential units on a popular nature site just to the west of the capital.

White Ridge — Reches Lavan, in Hebrew — is home to a range of mammals and has a natural spring and pool that attracts many Jerusalemites, especially young people.

A decision is not expected for several weeks.

Demonstrators outside a meeting of the national planning committee call for the cancellation of plans to build on White Ridge, a popular nature site to the west of Jerusalem, June 25, 2020. (Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

— Sue Surkes

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