Jerusalem delays talks of building in Gilo ahead of Obama’s expected arrival for Peres’s funeral
The Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee was supposed to discuss a building program which would oversee the construction of 76 housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo located beyond the Green Line.
Last week, the proposed project was removed from the agenda in light of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Barack Obama in New York. The Jerusalem municipality claimed that the discussions had been delayed not as a result of the meeting however, but due to the absence of the committee's chairman Meir Turgeman and his stand-in Yosef Deutsch who were abroad at the time.
Discussions about the project were thus rescheduled to take place on Wednesday but have been postponed once again in light of the expected arrival of President Obama in Israel to attend Shimon Peres’s funeral.
