The Hebrew Iroshalim newspaper on Saturday reported that the Israeli government is planning to establish a new synagogue on the slopes of the Mount of Olives in Ras al-Amud neighborhood in Occupied Jerusalem.
The paper said that the project will be implemented on an area of 2000 square meters with a ten-million-shekel budget collected from donors.
The four-floor synagogue is going to be divided into two separate sections: the first is for Ashkenazi Jews while the second is for Sephardi Jews. The building will also include a number of classrooms belonging to a religious college to be established there.
The synagogue will be built inside the well-guarded Ma’ale ha-Zeitim settlement which houses 130 Israeli families and will be used by Jewish settlers living in Palestinian neighborhoods near the settlement.
The synagogue project was approved about a decade ago but only recently could the settlers start the actual implementation of the project.
