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'West Bank construction dropped some 60% since Netanyahu took office'

West Bank construction

By JPOST.COM STAFF

DECEMBER 2, 2009 10:03

The construction of public buildings in the West Bank has dropped some 60 percent since Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took office, according to Central Bureau of Statistics figures quoted in an Israel Radio report Wednesday. The data showed that between the months of April and September 2009, only 132 units were approved, compared to 330 in the same period last year, during former prime minister Ehud Olmert's term in office. Between April and September 2007, the figure was 370.

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