Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon met with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to discuss strengthening economic ties between the two sides. <br/><br/>President Donald Trump's special Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt tweeted today that the meeting in Ramallah yielded meaningful steps forward on key economic issues – revenues, customs and investment – that help support the search for peace. <br/><br/>The meeting, held yesterday also attended by Israeli and Palestinian security officials, was the second by Kahlon and Hamdallah in recent months. <br/><br/>It came just days after Israel approved construction of almost 200 new Jewish homes in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood, part of a major settlement boom. <br/><br/>The Palestinian state news agency Wafa said, the Palestinians protested Israel's settlement expansion and demanded Israel stop incursions by Jewish extremists into<br/>Jerusalem's contested Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.