The Israeli Court decided to demolish the Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar near Jerusalem, displace Palestinian families in order to expand the settlement of Ma'aleh
Adummim, among heavy popular resistance.
On 30 May, the Israeli authorities approved a planning scheme providing for the construction of 92 new housing units in the Kfar
Adummim settlement, immediately adjacent to Khan al Ahmar.
Yael Yekutiel, 20, from Givatayim (promoted posthumously to full lieutenant), officer cadet Shir Hajaja, 22, from Maaleh
Adummim, and Shira Tzur, 20, from Haifa.
Ayal Fishler (Ma'aleh
Adummim: Ma'aliyot Press, 2002) pp.
He declined to be more specific, but when I brought up Ma'ale
Adummim and Ari'el, he acknowledged that those two would be staying with Israel.
Over the years I also visited settlements such as Ariel, Ma'ale
Adummim, Betar Illit and Kirya Arba, which resemble the South African luxury suburbs of Sandton and Constantia with their fine homes, supermarkets, schools and hospitals.
located in Ma'ale
Adummim settlement in eastern Jerusalem.
I observed the Moon in a clear sky from Ma'ale
Adummim, east of Jerusalem, with binoculars, but could not see it with the naked eye.
The largest mortgages were given in the following localities: Bat Yam, Bene Berak, Even Yehuda, Ganei Tikva, GivaLayim, Givat Sbmuel, Givat Ze'ev, Herzliya, Hod Hasharon, Holon, Jerusalem, Kefar Sava, Kiryat Ono, Ma' ale
Adummim, Mevasseret Zion, Ness Ziyyona, Netanya, Or Yehuda, Petah Tikva, Ra'ananna, Ramat Gan, Ramat Hasharon, Rehovot, Rishon Lezion, Rosh ha-Ayin, Tel Aviv, and Yehud.
In the 1980s, the Civil Administration deported hundreds of Bedouins from the Jahalin tribe from their areas to establish the Ma'ale
Adummim settlement and then expanding it.
The E1 project entails the construction of thousands of new settlement housing and commercial units, creating a continuous built-up area between the Ma'ale
Adummim settlement and Jerusalem.
A third Israeli, a bus driver, was injured when Palestinians threw rocks at his bus near Maale
Adummim outside Jerusalem.