Israel approves Jewish religious school project in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah

Israeli authorities have approved a plan to build a Jewish religious school on a large plot of land in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, a move condemned by the Palestinian Foreign Ministry as a violation of international law and an attempt to impose new realities on the ground, Anadolu reports. The Israeli rights group Ir Amim said on Thursday that a Jerusalem district planning committee officially approved the project earlier this week to construct a Jewish religious school, or yeshiva, known as “Ohr Somayach” in the Palestinian neighborhood. The organization said objections submitted jointly by Ir Amim and the Sheikh Jarrah community association were rejected. According to the group, the planned complex will include an 11-story building with […]