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E-1 Settlement Expansion Plans Preempting the Growth of Arab Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved the E-1 development scheme in March 1997 c barely a week after the decision to begin construction of the Har Homa settlement suburb in East Jerusalem. The uproar about Har Homa, resulting in a disruption of the Oslo negotiations, left little opportunity to focus attention on the approval for the much more controversial and important E-1 plan, which includes the now-desolate area between East Jerusalem and the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim Read more

Map: Jerusalem City Scheme 1944--West & East Jerusalem City Schemes 1959 and 1964

Map: E1 Development Plan and Environs