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US demanding quotas for settlement building — report
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn talks between US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Jason Greenblatt and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, the US demanded Israel end construction in isolated settlements and impose an overall yearly quota, Channel 2 reports.
Earlier Netanyahu said that progress had been made in ongoing talks with the US.
Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Yoav Horowitz, left for Washington on Sunday to discuss settlement building with the Trump administration.
Horowitz joined Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the US, to continue discussions with Greenblatt in an attempt to reach an understanding with the administration on construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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