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Article: Israel to Expand Power Grid in Disputed East Jerusalem
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 2, 2001
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Israel has decided to link upthree Jewish neighborhoods in East
Jerusalem with Israel Electric Corporation's power grid, a daring
move which may further irritate the Palestinians, Israel's Ha'aretz
daily reported Sunday.
The report said that all major Jewish areas in East Jerusalem,
occupied by Israel after the 1967 Mideast War, had already been
linked to the Israeli electrical grid. But the move to link the
three small neighborhoods to the Israeli network would be the
firstof its kind since 1987.
The order was already issued by Israeli Minister of National
Infrastructures Avigdo Lieberman, a leading hawk in the national