Reconstruction of the old Jewish quarter in East Jerusalem will cost the Israel Government $3.5 million in the next fiscal year, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol reported in the Knesset (Parliament) yesterday. He said part of the cost includes a sum set aside to evacuate 800 families from the quarter.
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