[Ha'aretz] Tomer Zarchin and Yoav Stern - Israel's High Court Wednesday gave the final go-ahead for the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, rejecting appeals by Muslims who complained that the museum will be built on part of an ancient Muslim cemetery. The justices ruled that since no objections were raised in 1960, when the city put a parking lot over a small section of the graveyard, they would not block construction of the museum on that same site now. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Los Angeles-based Jewish organization behind the project, welcomed the court ruling and said work on the $250 million museum would resume immediately, after a two-year delay due to the legal proceedings. In their ruling, the justices required that any human remains be reburied at an alternative site, or that the museum be built on pillars so that the graves beneath are not disturbed.
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