Israel does not plan to add houses to Ma’aleh Adumim in the “foreseeable future,” its housing minister said. Yitzhak Herzog told a Washington Institute for Near East Policy forum on Monday that the controversy over a report that Israel had approved 3,500 new apartments for the West Bank settlement and Jerusalem bedroom community was “overblown.”
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