Barak Gives the Green Light to More Affordable Housing
Although building permits had been given out earlier, there were some diplomatic concerns about marketing the project.
News of the go-ahead comes after a month-long, massive protest in Israel, where citizens flooded the streets, protesting the lack of affordable housing.
Approximately 100 of the 277 apartments, which are expected to be completed in three years, will be inhabited by Jewish families forced from their homes in Gush Katif in 2005.
The Ariel apartment
announcement comes shortly after the Interior Ministry’s Jerusalem
District Planning and
Building Committee gave its final approval on the construction of 1,600
housing units in Ramat Shlomo, in eastern Jerusalem, and more than 900
housing units in Har Homa.

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Lawmakers support legislation which would change Israel’s accepted definition as a “Jewish and democratic state.”
Hakim Awad confesses to murder of five members of family
900 teachers will be trained to teach new compulsory class
More building permits announced in wake of Israeli protests
Israeli famuily granted permission to extract and harvest the eggs of their deceased teenage daughter.
Thousands attend funeral of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira on Mount of Olives

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