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Jerusalem municipality to strike next week
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJerusalem city hall is to go on strike next week over a spat with the Finance Ministry.
The municipality says that the treasury is not transferring a promised budget.
“It is a shame that at a time when the US is strengthening Jerusalem, the Finance Ministry is not standing behind it and is preventing the flow of funds,” city hall says in a statement, in an apparent reference to promises by the new Trump administration to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
The city also plans to begin a spate of construction in East Jerusalem Jewish neighborhoods, which had been frozen under the Obama administration.
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