Israel issued requests for construction bids for hundreds of new homes in two West Bank settlements. The tender for 348 construction plots in Ma’aleh Adumim and 342 in Beitar Illit were published by the Israel Lands Administration on Monday, the biggest such expansion initiative since Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took power in May.
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