New alternative under way for failed Western Wall plaza plan

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Published: 22 February 2018

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Likud minister says government preparing alternative to Reform-backed Western Wall plan cancelled in January

'Gov't working on alternative Western Wall plan'(Israel National News)
The Israeli government is preparing an alternative to the Reform-backed Western Wall Plaza plan, Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud) told American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on Monday.

Speaking at the Conference of Presidents’ 42nd annual Leadership Mission to Israel, Hanegbi told American Jewish leaders that Binyamin Netanyahu still endorses the position he laid out in his 2009 Bar Ilan address, in which he agreed to the establishment of a demilitarised Palestinian state following negotiations conditioned on the Palestinian Authority’s recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.

Photo: Hanegbi addresses the Conference of Presidents' Israel Leadership Mission (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)