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Deri wants Gilo building project halted after burial caves found
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleShas chairman Aryeh Deri told Prime Minister Netanyahu, during a meeting of heads of coalition factions, that construction in the south Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo “should be halted until a solution is figured out for the burial caves found there.”
Deri was referring to a construction project in the neighborhood, in which contractors found ancient burial caves halfway through clearing the ground for construction.
He asked Netanyahu to instruct Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze’ev Elkin to halt work until a solution is found. Netanyahu agreed.
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