Officials in Jerusalem City Hall and the Interior Ministry are expected to convene the stalled Wallaje project, which entails the construction of 14,000 housing units for the Jewish sector between Gilo and Betar Illit. The new community would be situated southwest of the southern capital, in Gush Etzion.

According to the Maariv report, if approved, the project will be the largest undertaken in an area liberated in the June 1967 Six Day War since the establishment of the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Pisgat Ze’ev, Gilo and Har Choma.

Givat Yael is slated to encompass a 3,000 dunam (750 acres) area and it will with Hashem’s assistance become home to an estimated 40,000 Jews. In his capacity as chairman of the city’s building and planning committee, R’ Yehoshua Pollack worked to advance the plan during the former Jerusalem administration.

If the final approval is received, the new community will exceed the Jerusalem municipality boundaries and extend over the Green Line, into Yehuda, in proximity of the area known as Wallaje.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)