Thanks to outgoing Interior Minister, construction of neighborhood on site of old Atarot Airport in Jerusalem to be ready for approval soon.
Israel National News Nov 27, 2022, 8:14 AM (GMT+2)
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Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked approached the The Jerusalem Local Planning and Building Committee at the end of her term with a request that the committee expedite the construction of the Atarot neighborhood, Israel Hayom reported.
The plan would see the construction of 9,000 housing units in the area of Jerusalem’s old Atarot Airport.
The plan is considered politically sensitive due to the former airport’s location in northern Jerusalem in an area which was liberated in the 1967 Six Day War.
Shaked, who promoted the plan during her term as Interior Minister, wanted to complete it in the last week of her position before leaving political life. However, the committee told her that the environmental impact review had not yet been completed. As a result, it is not legally possible to grant the plan its final approval and such approval is a few months away, at the very least.
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Sources close to Shaked stated that since her Jewish Home party did not make it into the 25th Knesset, she does not feel beholden to either outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid or Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu and would be unmoved if either them sought to force her to halt the project due to pressure from the Biden Administration.
According to the sources, “Although it is not possible to complete the Atarot planning process at the moment, Shaked has pushed the plan has far as she could during her term. Now it is up to the next government to complete it. This is about Israel’s grip on northern Jerusalem and a plan that will release tens of thousands of apartments for the boiling real estate market of the city.”
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Thank you Shaked!