Top court backs earlier district court ruling rejecting retrial bid. Patriarchate vows to continue supporting Palestinian tenants who face potential eviction The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision not to block the transfer of rights to three buildings in the Old City to a right-wing Jewish group, exhausting all recourse for the Greek Orthodox church after a …
As a six-year-old boy, Abu El Walid Dajani began helping his father manage the New Imperial Hotel near Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem. The historic property is owned by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, and leased before 1967 to the Dajani family to run as a hotel. Now 77, Dajani has become the manager. But the threat of eviction is derailing a way …
On holiest time of Orthodox Christian year, police limit access to holy sites — part of wider campaign against Christians in Old City Today is the holiest day in the year for Christians — or, I should say, Orthodox Christians. It’s Pascha (Easter), for us; Western Christians celebrated Easter last week. The first service of […]
After court temporarily freezes sale of Imperial Hotel to Jewish group, proprietor remains unsure whether ruling will mark a turning point in long-running dispute over the property [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Imperial Hotel next to Jaffa Gate in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City on November 29, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)[/caption] The hotel, right […]
District court tells Jewish settlement organization Ateret Cohanim to pay Greek Orthodox Patriarchate NIS 50,000 for legal costs after failing to respond to latest church petition [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Imperial Hotel at the Jaffa Gate, the lease to which was sold to the right-wing Ateret Cohanim organization and is the subject of an […]
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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate claims discovery of alleged corruption within Ateret Cohanim group is sufficient to overturn Supreme Court ruling on Old City buildings [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III (3rd left) together with the Franciscan Custodian of the Holy Land Fr Francesco Patton (2nd left) and fellow church leaders from […]
Beware. Jerusalem’s history is under attack. Venerable, family-run institutions are threatened. Our holy city’s charming yet delicate urban and spiritual ecosystem risks being disrupted. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="822"] Magnanimous Zionists should save the New Imperial Hotel and Jaffa Gate (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] Dear Ateret Cohanim leaders, Israeli politicians with power in this matter and […]
The New Imperial Hotel, Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem. (Wikimedia Commons) I must confess that what triggered me to address the creeping encroachment of settlers deep into Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem was not only the fact that this is unashamedly part of an ongoing plan to thwart any possibility that parts of the city will become […]
