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Finance Minister Calls to Build in E-1 Area Next to Jerusalem


(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday, "I think we have to build in E-1, and elsewhere in Ma'ale Adumim and the other settlement blocs," during a tour of the city of Ma'ale Adumim, adjacent to Jerusalem. Located 4.5 km. over the pre-1967 line, Ma'ale Adumim is home to 36,000 people. New construction there has slowed to a trickle because the only tracts of land left for new construction projects are in E-1. For close to two decades, every prime minister has promised to authorize E-1, but the U.S. has pressured Israel not to build there. "It should be clear that Ma'ale Adumim [including E-1] will remain in Israel in any future peace agreement," Steinitz said. Even former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin believed this.
2011-11-17 00:00:00
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