NEWS MAX: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has quietly curbed new building projects in Jewish settlements, an Israeli watchdog group and media reports said Tuesday, in an apparent bid to help U.S. efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians…
Israeli Army Radio reported that Netanyahu had met Housing Minister Uri Ariel to order a freeze in issuing tenders for new housing projects in settlements in the West Bank, effectively delaying construction of hundreds of homes.
The Haaretz newspaper, quoting unidentified senior officials, said Netanyahu had promised Secretary of State John Kerry that he would refrain until mid-June from publishing new tenders in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war… (more)
