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Meeting on E1 settlement plans delayed for month after US pressure
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Following significant international pressure, the Defense Ministry has delayed a hearing to advance a controversial settlement project in the West Bank’s E-1 Area that was set to take place just four days after US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel.
The Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee was scheduled to hear objections on the massive housing project on July 18, but the session has now been pushed to September 12.
Building in E-1 would link Jerusalem to the large settlement of Maale Adumim to its east. But doing so would essentially bisect the West Bank and make a contiguous Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital nearly impossible, critics say.
The Biden administration had been pushing Israel hard to scrap the plan.
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