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Jerusalem Deputy Mayor David Hadari submitted a “routine” proposal last week regarding details of a plan to market of 900 new housing units in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem—and immediately made headlines over “building a settlement in East Jerusalem.” Hadari joked about the situation in a post to Facebook on Sunday. “I forgot one thing… that American Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting,” he wrote. …

The European Union expressed disappointment on Friday at Israel’s decision to go ahead with the building of new homes in southern Jerusalem, AFP reported. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was quoted by the news agency as saying she was “profoundly disappointed” by Thursday’s approval of a project to build 930 new homes in the Har Homa neighborhood in Jerusalem, adjacent to the Jerusalem neightborhood of Talpiot. The plan, first approved by a local committee two years ago, was authorized by the Interior Ministry for marketing by the contractors who won development tenders, and for eventual construction. The Ministry announced...