#Israel makes public plan to build high rise in East Jerusalem: NGO
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An Israeli planning committee moved forwards on Wednesday with plans to build a nine-story Jewish seminary in the heart of a densely-populated Palestinian neighborhood of east Jerusalem. Plans for the new tower block, to be built in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of annexed east Jerusalem, were deposited for consultation, giving the public 60 days to submit any objections, settlement watchdog Peace Now said. “It’s a plan for a nine-story, ultra-Orthodox yeshiva in Sheikh Jarrah which was deposited today for objections,” spokesman Lior Amihai told AFP. read more