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Overlooking the rolling hills of the Judean Mountains, Gilo is a suburban enclave just outside the typical traveler’s path in Jerusalem. Providing residents with a peaceful place to live ...
The new units will expand the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, one of several built on land taken by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and annexed to the city in a step not recognized by the ...
Washington’s response to plans to advance the building of 1,100 housing units in the Jewish east Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo was relatively subdued. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton call ...
About 40,000 Israelis live in Gilo. "With God's help, we will continue to live and build in Jerusalem, which will remain united under Israeli sovereignty," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Law enforcement officials said they drove from the Palestinian town of Beit Jala toward Gilo on a dirt road, then got out and continued by foot. When they arrived in Gilo, the suspects kept the ...
The Jerusalem Planning Committee’s approval of the project is one step short of a final go-ahead to expand Gilo, a neighborhood built on land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War.
Light rail to offer limited service amid work to link existing line with new route, set to last three months; commuters say ...
In the past only the ravine separated Gilo, built by Israel on land it captured from Jordan in the 1967 war, from the predominantly Christian West Bank village, Beit Jala, and other localities ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo following an international outcry over the approval of nearly 800 apartments there. “United Jerusalem is Israel's ...
A Jerusalem building committee has approved the construction of 130 new apartments in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. The construction must still be approved by the government’s ...
Flames began threatening homes in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood late Thursday morning. Eighteen teams of firefighters battled the blaze, which began on the outskirts of the city, according to ...
Founded in 1971 as one of the ring neighborhoods after the Six Day War, Gilo is the highest neighborhood in Jerusalem, sitting at 857 meters above sea level. Gilo was founded in 1971 as one of the ...