Haj Husseini’s Shepherd Hotel in east J’lem demolished
By Melanie Seidman and Khaled abu Toameh
January 9, 2011
JerusalemPost
Construction of Jewish homes in Sheikh Jarrah gets underway at a site that was built by former mufti of J'lem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.
Demolition of the Shepherd Hotel, in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, began at dawn on Sunday.
It came after a long battle over construction rights that drew condemnation from US President Barack Obama and other leaders around the world over the past few years.
The hotel, which was built in the 1930s by the mufti of Jerusalem Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini (1921- 1948), was bought in 1985 by American millionaire Irving Moskowitz, who has bankrolled other Jewish housing projects in Arab neighborhoods in the capital. Moskowitz, partnering with the Ateret Cohanim organization, plans to turn the complex into 20 apartments for religious Jewish families.
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