人权组织称，这条计划中的长 1.4 公里路线终点位于由极右翼定居者组织 Elad 运营的建筑群，将导致巴勒斯坦人流离失所并重塑文化景观。第五家外国公司已退出一项从西耶路撒冷通往东耶路撒冷修建缆车的计划，该计划恐将导致沿线数十个巴勒斯坦家庭的土地和财产权被剥夺，但当地政府坚持称该计划正按原定推进。
Rights groups say the planned 1.4km route, which ends at compound run by far-right settler group Elad, will displace Palestinians and reshape the cultural landscape A fifth foreign company has pulled out of a plan to build a cable car from West to East Jerusalem that threatens to involve the seizure of land and property rights from dozens of Palestinian families along its route, but local authorities insist the scheme is proceeding as planned.
该项目似乎已停滞四年，直到 9 月下旬，即以色列 10 月 27 日大选前几周，耶路撒冷发展局 (JDA) 发布通知，拟在不进行公开招标的情况下将合同授予 ROPES，后者是一家总部位于意大利南蒂罗尔的缆车工程咨询公司。
The project appeared to have stalled for four years until late September, just weeks before Israel’s 27 October elections, when the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA) issued a notice of intent to award a contract without a public tender to ROPES, a cable car engineering consultancy based in South Tyrol, Italy.
