By Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondent: After U.S. pressure, Barkat to halt 70% of East Jerusalem demolitions
Talkback
Title:Housing for families and Single mothers
Name:Nofia Shem Tov
City: JerusalemState: Israel
Mayor Barkat!!!! You`re not keeping your campaign promises!!! The rents are skyrocketing and I can`t afford to move...but to go to a settlement is a social death sentence for a single divorced mother. Firstly, most settlements don`t want single mothers, second those that take us...no one invites us for Shabbat!!! I need my social network in the city to live a healthy vibrant life, and you promised to stop the foreigners from buying up the city and remodeling and jacking rents, but you`ve done nothing!!! Screw East Jerusalem. The Arabs there aren`t even loyal Israeli citizens and they deserve to have their houses torn down if they don`t have permits. TAKE CARE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO NEED PROTECTION!