The apartments will be built over the "green line" in Ramat Shlomo, the ultra-orthodox "Bizzness" website reports.
The Jerusalem Municipality's planning and building committee today approved 88 new homes for the ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, the haredi "Bizzness" website reports. Ramat Shlomo is over the green line in north East Jerusalem, to the east of Ramot and north of Har Hotzvim, on what was once called the Shuafat ridge.
The 88 housing units that have reportedly been approved today caused controversy in the past and made the international headlines six months ago when discussions about permits for them were unexpectedly postponed by the planning and building committee. At the time, a senior source in the Jerusalem Municipality has said that an instruction had been sent by the Prime Minister's Office.
Ramat Shlomo has always been a sensitive issue in the eyes of the US administration. Most famously, during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden in 2010, the Israeli government announced that 1,600 homes were to be built in the Jerusalem neighborhood.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on June 6, 2016
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Ramot Shlomo Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski