Knesset Okays Controversial Plan to Construct 27,000 Hotel Rooms
A plan highly-disputed by environmentalists to construct some 27,000 hotel rooms, presumably nearly all along the beaches of Israel, over the next decade received Knesset plenary approval on Monday night, August 1. Promoted by far right and neo-liberal Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, the “Hotels Law” is an amendment to the country’s Planning and Building Law…