Italian engineering firm withdraws from Jerusalem cable car project amid continued opposition

An Italian engineering consultancy has withdrawn from a planned cable car project near Jerusalem’s Old City, becoming the fifth foreign company to pull out of the initiative amid longstanding legal, environmental and political objections. According to a report published Monday by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Jerusalem Development Authority had announced plans to contract Italian firm Engineering Ropeway ROPES to provide technical consulting services for the project. The company subsequently confirmed to Italian media that it would no longer participate. About a month earlier, the authority’s tender committee had approved an exemption from the competitive bidding process, arguing that no Israeli company possessed the expertise required to provide the project’s specialised engineering services. However, the Italian consultancy later reversed its […]