A3 Israel Freezes Housing Plan Israel has bowed to the United States and frozen a much-criticized plan to add 3,500 housing units near a large West Bank settlement , according to Ehud Olmert , Israel 's deputy prime minister and a close ally of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon .
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