The Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem
Photo: Eli Mendelbaum
Jerusalem planning committee meeting postponed again
As leaders from around the world come to Peres's funeral in Jerusalem - the state's largest funeral since Yitzhak Rabin - the Jerusalem Planning and Building Committee has been asked to postpone discussions on building in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
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.
They were asked to delay the meeting once again due to political sensitivity over the issue, and due to the fact that world dignitaries will be in the city during that time.
The proposed project was removed from the agenda in light of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Barack Obama last week in New York.
Building in Gilo (Photo: AFP)
The Jerusalem municipality claimed that the discussions had been delayed not as a result of the meeting, 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 the rescheduled to take place on Wednesday but have been postponed once again in light of the expected arrival of President Obama and other world leaders to Israel to attend Shimon Peres’s funeral
