The new library has a distinctive curved roof shaped like an open book, 11-story structure—with six floors above ground and five below, and opens in late October.
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked tweeted that a planning committee would convene next week to approve 4,000 homes, calling construction a 'basic, required and obvious' right.
Netanyahu announced major projects in Jerusalem that would add 4,000 new residential units, including construction of a neighborhood the Obama administration had opposed.
The European Union decided to attack Israel over legitimate construction in Jerusalem. An Israeli spokesman said the report is "one-sided" and "distorts reality beyond comprehension.”
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