By Anshel Pfeffer, April 4, 2008
Prime minister Ehud Olmert has promised Shas that building will go on in settlements around Jerusalem, despite US demands that Israel desist from building across the Green Line.
Shas has come under increasing pressure both from right-wing elements and its ultra-Orthodox rival, United Torah Judaism, to leave the coalition over the building freeze and concessions that the government has made to the Palestinian Authority.
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