Supreme Court approves Jerusalem cable car plan

KARAITE-AND-CABLE-CAR-CONFLICT COURT DECISION: Israeli court rejects petitions against 'megalomaniacal' Jerusalem cable car plan. Court green lights Israeli government project to build controversial cable car connecting city's east and west (Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Middle East Eye).

Israel's Supreme Court has rejected several petitions against a controversial cable car project set to alter the historical skyline of the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem.

On Sunday, the court dismissed four petitions filed by Palestinian residents of the Silwan neighbourhood, store owners in the Old City, the Jewish Karaite community, the Israeli archaeological group Emek Shaveh, and Adam Teva V'Din, an environmental group.

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