TEL AVIV, October 21, 2009 (WAFA)- The widow of late minister and Israeli army chief of staff Rafael Eitan does not want a street named after her husband in a settlement in East Jerusalem, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

Ofra Meyerson-Eitan has approached the Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem  Nir Barkat with the request that the decision to name the street after her husband, which was made last month by a municipal committee, be rescinded.

The street in question is located in the small Jewish Nof Tzion settlement in the heart of the Palestinian Jabal Mukkaber area in the southeastern part of the city.

Unlike her late right-wing husband, who died five years ago, Meyerson-Eitan has left-wing political views.

'I don't think this is a street that belongs to us. I don't think we need to be there and therefore I objected,' she told Haaretz. Eitan's children and his wife from his first marriage were not involved in the request against naming the street for Eitan.

In her letter to the mayor, Meyerson-Eitan complained that when she was approached by the city, she was not told the precise location of the street which was to bear her husband's name and that she only learned it from a report in Haaretz.

As reported a month and a half ago, the family of late entertainer Shaike Ophir was similarly surprised to learn that the street to be named after Ophir was located in the same Nof Tzion settlement and not in Armon Hanatziv, as they had been told by a municipal representative.

The Jerusalem Municipality issued a statement saying that the relevant committee would work to find a solution that satisfies the Eitan and Ophir families, adding that at a committee hearing it was decided that a committee representative would be in touch with the families and that the misinformation about the location of the streets was provided unintentionally.