Yedioth Ahronoth, a mass circulation daily, reported that Rabin met with top defense and housing officials recently to consider a secret expansion plan. The report came amid Palestinian calls for a freeze on the building of any more Jewish settlements, to protect the fragile Israeli-PLO peace accord.
Rabin's spokesman Oded Ben-Ami said he was not aware of a building plan and had no information about it.
Rabin promised to freeze most settlement building after he was elected in 1992.
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