Jerusalem Mayor to Retroactively Legalize East Jerusalem Buildings

Barkat plans to legalize settler housing, demolish Palestinian homes to make way for tourist park.

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Haaretz Correspondent

March 02, 2010

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is to hold a press conference Tuesday in which he will unveil his plan for solving some of the capital's thorniest construction issues, in Silwan in East Jerusalem.

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