Israel planning new settlement project on lands of Lifta, Deir Yassin

Jerusalem municipality approved a project to build the largest university campus in Israel for ultra-Orthodox women, after the ministries for higher education and settlements lent their support to the project.

According to the municipality, this project will extend the university campus of Jerusalem College of Technology, Machon Lev by an area of 13 dunams of the historic land of Lifta and Deir Yassin and will cost an estimated $120 million. 

Extremist Orthodox Jewish religious associations, from both inside and outside the country, have already donated some $70 million for the project. 

According to the occupation municipality, an “innovative academic space” will be built there, which will include five huge buildings for the College of Engineering, Life Sciences, Health and Administration, a conference building and a dormitory tower for female students. 

Excavation work at the site is expected to begin next week.