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Givat Hamatos

This week in Jerusalem: For the sake of Kiryat Hayovel

A round-up of city affairs.

|ByPEGGY CIDOR
Plans for the new park in Jerusalem's Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood.
A MAN with an Israeli flag walks in the Givat Hamatos neighborhood of Jerusalem on Monday.

Expropriation of Givat HaMatos neighborhood approved as Lapid visits US

The controversial expropriation of the Givat HaMatos neighborhood in east Jerusalem was approved on Wednesday.

|ByYAEL FREIDSON/WALLA, SHLOMI HELLER/WALLA!
HOUSES in the Beit Safafa neighborhood of Jerusalem, near Givat Hamatos.

Israel promotes over 2,000 settler units prior to Biden inauguration

Israel to EU: Givat Hamatos is not a settlement

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A MAN with an Israeli flag walks in the Givat Hamatos neighborhood of Jerusalem on Monday.

The struggle for equality in Jerusalem is an ongoing fight – opinion

Jerusalem is bi-national, physically undivided, and the most segregated city in the world. Jerusalem is an apartheid city.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN

Israel entrenching a ‘one-state reality,’ Germany tells UNSC

Outside the confines of the UNSC, the EU and other European member states have also condemned the Givat Hamatos project.

NOVEMBER 18, 2020
A view of Jerusalm is seen from the disputed Givat Hamatos neighborhood

Ireland tells Israel it’s 'seriously concerned' by Givat Hamatos project

“I call upon the Israeli government to reverse this decision and to halt all settlement construction,” Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said.

NOVEMBER 18, 2020
A signpost in the Givat Hamatos section of east Jerusalem