The State Comptroller’s Office is delaying a mega rehabilitation project slated for Har HaZeisim. As a result, Mayor Rabbi Uri Lupoliansky is seeking to have the responsibility for security for Har HaZeisim placed on Jerusalem City Hall and the Cemetery Council, explaining this is to ensure the enormous amount of money invested in the project should no be permitted to go to waste by leaving the holy site unattended.

The State Comptroller ordered the project halted after the Housing Ministry announced it was no longer taking responsibility for security in the area.

Lupoliansky is suggesting that the city and Cemetery Council accept the responsibility to permit a continuation of the project. Acting on the mayor’s suggesting council attorney Meir Shpiegler turned to the Housing Ministry in a letter stating that if not national government agency is taking responsibility for the area then the Jerusalem Municipality will move in to fill the void and provide protection on Har HaZeisim.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)