The team from Xana Capital Ltd. tried to stake its claim to a large area of the Armenian Quarter by force in the wake of the Patriarchate’s filing of intention to cancel a controversial land lease deal.
The land lease deal between the Armenian Patriarchate and the Jerusalem municipality, concluded in secrecy, is now in the courts.
Since 1967, Palestinian Jerusalemites have largely boycotted the Jerusalem municipal elections. Will this time be any different?
Who is responsible for what in East Jerusalem’s education system? You might be surprised.
Palestinian landowners were crushed when Israeli officials refused to authorize a neighborhood on their own land—the first in East Jerusalem since 1967.
The founder and director of the Israel Land Fund, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Arieh King, describes the fund’s goals in his own very explicit and unequivocal words.
“The idea is to encourage non-Jews to relocate outside the borders of our country.”
For one young man, the permanent residency that eluded him in his youth is more than enough.
Mayor of Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century who paved the streets and built the city’s public sewage system