Jerusalem s White Ridge plan put on hold
The environmentally controversial 5,000 home neighborhood could be blocked by the failure of the Ora junction interchange to win approval.
Environmentalists opposed to the rezoning of 210 acres of forest in the Jerusalem Hills for the planned White Ridge neighborhood have been handed a lifeline.
The National Planning and Building Commission s Appeals Sub-Committee has cancelled a decision by the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee to expand the junction at Moshav Ora into a two level interchange and insisted that the plan must be redesigned. The committee was petitioned by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI).