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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/67486/full/67486/israels-housing-ministry-opens-bids-on-west-bank-construction/ <br /><br /> <b>Israel’s Housing Ministry opens bids on West Bank construction</b> <br /> Thursday, January 17, 2013 | by <br /><br /><p>Israel’s Housing Ministry opened bidding to developers on 200 homes in the West Bank.</p> <p>The ministry issued the tenders for two construction projects, including 114 homes in Efrat and 84 in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Peace Now released a report Jan. 16 saying that a record number of construction projects commenced or were approved in West Bank Jewish settlements in 2012.</p> <p>The government approved plans for more than 6,600 West Bank apartments and homes, and ground was broken on another 1,400 West Bank homes, the report said; 3,500 of the approvals were residential units intended for the E1 corridor between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem. Four new settlement outposts were established in 2012.</p> <p>In 2011, by comparison, 1,607 housing units were approved for construction, according to the report. — jta</p>

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