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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Jerusalem Local Planning and Building Committee,

US President Bill Clinton (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the White House after their Oval Office meeting and joint news conference, November 12, 1993. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
December 8, 2021, 5:56 pm
Israel advances East Jerusalem project 25 years after promising Clinton to trash it
Neighborhood to be located on land then-PM moved to expropriate in 1995, sparking outcry; Security Council resolution was vetoed by US in exchange for Rabin backtrack
By Jacob Magid
View of Lifta, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, December 17, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 27, 2017, 5:45 am
State buries survey on ancient Jerusalem village slated for development
Activist says officials afraid archaeological findings on Lifta will help preservationists fighting plan to put luxury homes in hillside hamlet frozen in time
By Dov Lieber
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responds to a major policy speech by Secretary of State John Kerry, from his office in Jerusalem on December 28, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)
December 28, 2016, 9:02 pm
PMO, ministers lay into Kerry’s ‘obsessive, skewed’ speech on conflict
Netanyahu says secretary of state ignored Palestinian blame for ongoing strife; Bennett: We won’t allow a terror state in the heart of the land
By ToI Staff and AP
Illustrative photo of a construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (AP/Dan Balilty)
December 28, 2016, 12:25 pm
Ahead of Kerry speech, new East Jerusalem homes off the agenda
City Hall discussion of housing permits is canceled, reportedly by request of prime minister, amid growing pressure in wake of UN’s anti-settlement vote
By ToI Staff and AFP
Sunset over a construction site next to the Jewish East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo on November 21, 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)
December 26, 2016, 10:47 am
In wake of UN measure, hundreds of East Jerusalem homes set to be okayed
618 housing units in capital reportedly expected to be green-lighted for construction, while another 5,600 will be considered
By ToI Staff
A man looks out of a window of building where Israeli flags fly from the roof, in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
June 15, 2016, 4:35 pm
Controversial Jewish building in East Jerusalem gets green light
Municipality approves three-story structure in flashpoint neighborhood of Silwan, despite heavy opposition
By Dov Lieber
A man looks out of a window of building where Israeli flags fly from the roof, in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
June 1, 2016, 4:45 pm
Plans deferred for new Jewish building in Silwan after ‘political pressure’
Government officials said to have intervened to prevent green light for homes in flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood
By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes
A newly purchased Jewish home in Silwan, October 2, 2014. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
June 1, 2016, 10:28 am
Government said set to stymie new Jewish building in Silwan
Jerusalem municipality to debate bid for homes in flashpoint neighborhood amid calls to scrap proposal
By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes
A view of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, most of which lies over the Green Line. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 20, 2014, 5:33 am
US slams Israeli construction in E. Jerusalem, renewed home demolitions
State Department says approval of 78 new units ‘inconsistent with goal of lowering tensions,’ punitive razing of terrorists’ homes ‘counterproductive’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
A view of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, most of which lies over the Green Line. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 19, 2014, 7:08 pm
78 homes approved in East Jerusalem Jewish neighborhoods
50 apartments to be built in Ramot; 28 in Har Homa; same committee last week okayed 178 homes for Arab residents
By Stuart Winer
US State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki (screen capture: YouTube)
November 12, 2014, 10:03 pm
US ‘deeply concerned’ at new E. Jerusalem housing plan
Reaction comes after local planning committee approves 200 homes in the capital’s Ramot neighborhood
By Stuart Winer
A view of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, most of which lies over the Green Line. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 12, 2014, 7:24 pm
Israel approves 200 new homes in Jewish E. Jerusalem area
Planning committee gives preliminary okay to construction in Ramot, and another 174 homes in Arab neighborhoods
By AP
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