Every tin pot minister in his government seems to be running the country by their own whims and fancies. The Iranian minister who called our government insane may be right. It takes a lunatic to recognize other lunatics

The PM does not need to get involved in every construction issue that should be handled by a gov't ministry and/or a municipality. You should have paid better attention in civics class.

Iran is a country where they murder people in the streets for political expression. Just the kind of place a stalinist totalitarian would quote with approval.

As other news sources have reported, the reason for the compromise is simple. If Havilio wants to destroy the two top floors of Bet Yonatan he will also have to destroy 200 neighboring illegal Arab buildings. The police, skilled at beating Jews and Haredim, are terrified of the Arabs and so refuse to destroy the illegal Arab buildings. Legalizing Bet Yonatan will allow the police to save face and maintain the facade of "rule of law".