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PM said to halt E. Jerusalem housing project
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAmid significant tensions with the Obama administration, Israel freezes a 1,500-unit housing project in the East Jerusalem Har Homa neighborhood, the Ynet news site reports.
The Housing Ministry and the Jerusalem Municipality say that two discussions critical to the project’s advancement, scheduled for the coming week, were canceled for reasons that have not been explained to them.
Sources involved with the project tell Ynet that Netanyahu’s office held up the talks so as not to exacerbate tensions with the US president.
The Prime Minister’s Office, on the other hand, says the project was never presented to them, denying the claims made by Jerusalem and the Housing Ministry.
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