This week in Jerusalem - A round-up of city affairs

• Author: PEGGY CIDOR
• Date: 07 January 2021
• Published date: 07 January 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The district planning and construction committee has rejected a project to build two towers of 24 stories each near the Malha Mall. Residents objected to the towers, pointing out that towers planned along the light rail path are not allowed to exceed 18 stories. The two planned towers were to include 280 housing units for elderly residents, commercial areas, access to a nearby archeological plot that would be installed as a public garden, and ample underground parking, that would replace the actual open parking around the mall.

The project is not completely nixed; the committee has required that entrepreneurs resubmit plans that don't exceed the 18 stories permitted.

Hadassah headlines

Following the Health Ministry decision to stop vaccinations through the hospitals and to administer them only through the kupot holim, Hadassah Medical Center CEO Prof. Zeev Rotstein ordered the dismantling of the coronavirus wings in the hospital.

Rotstein has expressed his disappointment with the decision, but without a supply of the vaccines, there was no choice and the wings prepared to welcome and vaccinate Jerusalemites there were shuttered as of Monday this week.

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