Mordot Gilo South – APPROVED
Mordot Gilo South – APPROVED As anticipated, Town Plan 13261, for Mordot Gilo South, was approved on December 19. A map of the plan can be viewed/downloaded here. Timing: Plan 13261 was approved, as we had anticipated, at the December 19 meeting of the Jerusalem Regional Planning Committee. Announcement of the approval was delayed until December 24, reportedly […]
Givat Hamatos APPROVED – What it Means
Givat Hamatos APPROVED – What it Means The East Jerusalem settlement surge continues and intensifies. In light of the events of the past 24 hours, a brief overview of Givat Hamatos is in order. In brief: Givat Hamatos is the first new Israeli settlement neighborhood in East Jerusalem since Har Homa in the 1990’s. Givat Hamatos is […]
Breaking News – Approvals this week – Ramat Shlomo & Givat Hamatos
Breaking News – Approvals this week – Ramat Shlomo & Givat Hamatos Today it is impossible to report the events that are unfolding in Jerusalem in anything but the most emphatic terms. The very possibility of a political agreement between Israelis and Palestinians is endangered by the recent and pending developments as never before. Look at […]
The E-1 Crisis…This Is Not a Drill
The E-1 Crisis…This Is Not a Drill Attention is focused right now, naturally on E-1. However, before going into E-1, it is imperative to take note of all of the plans that have been acted upon since mid-October: Mordot Gilo West (Plan 13157), 797 units were approved. According to Minister of Construction Atias, tenders for these units are […]
More than 1200 New Tenders Issued for Pisgat Ze’ev and Ramot
More than 1200 New Tenders Issued for Pisgat Ze’ev and Ramot The ongoing East Jerusalem settlement surge continues. Today (November 6, 2012 — the same day as presidential elections in the United States), the Israel Land Authority published tenders for the construction of an additional 1213 residential units in East Jerusalem settlements. These tenders were issued […]
Plans for IDF Colleges on Mt. of Olives Deposited for Public Review & Explanation of Location
Plans for IDF Colleges on Mt. of Olives Deposited for Public Review & Explanation of Location On the heels of the approval of the Mordot Gilo settlement plan for 797 units on October 18, on October 19 we discovered that the plan for the construction of the IDF War Colleges on the Mount of Olives […]
Taking the Garbage to East Jerusalem
Taking the Garbage to East Jerusalem Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat recently brought before the Jerusalem City council, for its approval, a contract with a company that will treat Jerusalem’s waste and refuse, and sort it for purposes of recycling prior to disposal at a new site. This has become necessary as an interim step both […]
Is the Palestinian Population of East Jerusalem Becoming More Israeli — No
Is the Palestinian Population of East Jerusalem Becoming More Israeli — No On October 21, 2012, Haaretz published a blockbuster report: “3,374 East Jerusalem residents received full Israeli citizenship in past decade.” The subtitle: “According to new data obtained by Haaretz, the number of East Jerusalem Palestinians requesting – and receiving – citizenship rose sharply between 2004 […]
Mordot Gilo Construction Approved
Mordot Gilo Construction Approved On October 18, 2012, the Israeli Ministry of Interior published the approval of Mordot Gilo West (Town Plan 13157), for the construction of 797 additional units in Gilo. The plan is located within the expropriation line of 1970, but goes beyond the existing built-up foot-print of Gilo, in the direction of the […]
Pisgat Zeev in the News
Pisgat Zeev in the News On October 22, 2012 the Ministry of Construction issued a press release (Hebrew) announcing that 5000 residential units that will be marketed by publishing of tenders in the coming months, among which are 607 units to be marketed in Pisgat Ze’ev, on the border of the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina. No tenders […]