Israel to Implant 9-Storey Ultra-Orthodox Seminary in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Juan Cole 02/13/2014

(Via AFP)

Israel to build high rise in annexed E.Jerusalem area: NGO (via AFP)

Jerusalem’s planning committee moved forwards on Wednesday with plans to build a nine-storey Jewish seminary in the heart of a densely-populated Palestinian neighbourhood near the Old City. Plans for the new tower block, to be built in the Sheikh Jarrah…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Follow him at @jricole