Israel’s Cabinet approved a $90 million plan for the socio-economic development of eastern Jerusalem. The plan , approved Sunday, will focus on increased security and police in eastern Jerusalem. “One of the main goals of the plan that was approved is to bring about a significant decline in violence by means of integrated activity to…
The guessing game continues: Will he or won’t he? Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree to open peace negotiations with the Palestinians on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative — meaning, in effect, agreeing to start from the pre-1967 armistice lines as the basis for negotiating future borders? Netanyahu is under pressure. He…
The Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem is driving its Palestinian residents into deeper economic isolation and they face far greater poverty than Jewish neighbours, said a U.N. report on the city at the heart of the Middle East conflict. The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, published on Thursday, is the first comprehensive…
Israel approved plans to build 1,500 more Jewish settler homes in east Jerusalem on Monday, an official said, days after provoking international protests against a project for another 3,000 such homes on land it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. Washington had condemned the latest plans, for ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood Ramat Shlomo, when they were published…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the finalizing of a plan to build nearly 800 apartments in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. “We place no limits on construction in our capital city,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “Just as they build in London, Paris, Washington and Moscow, we…
Call it patriotism or doing something to express his Palestinian identity — Taisir Jubeh wanted to start a business in Jerusalem. So five months ago, after handing over the reins of his Ramallah bookshop to relatives, he opened a men’s casual wear store in the new Addar Shopping Mall, off Salah el-Din Street. The mall,…
In this week’s podcast, host Naomi Zeveloff talks with editor-in-chief Jane Eisner and contributor Elissa Strauss about a recent discussion about how women can manage work and family life. Then, Ben Lynfield calls in from Jerusalem to discuss why East Jerusalem is in an economic tailspin and how it is affecting residents there. <strong>Subscribe to…
Israel’s ministers had a lot on their minds when they woke, 45 years ago, on June 5, 1967. Jerusalem’s Old City, however, was not even a passing thought. The day before, at the regular Sunday Cabinet meeting, they had approved the launching of a pre-emptive air strike against Egypt within 24 hours — “To do…
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