An Oasis In Jerusalem’s Old City
When we started the Old City Ecological Initiative at Beit Prachim (Flowers Gate Compound), the idea was to inject a sense of sustainable development into a property known more for its strategic location being near the Flowers Gate as well as the historic site of the crusaders’ successful breakthrough into Jerusalem in 1099. As the […]
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Beit Prachim Grape Vines Connect Past And Present Redemptions
“For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land… a land of wheat and barley, vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of oil producing olives and honey.” (Deuteronomy 8:7-8) In 1099, on the 24th of Tammuz, the Crusaders breached the walls of Jerusalem, swarming the city, and murdering its Jewish and […]
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Every Inch of Territory – Every Step is a Battleground in Shiloach
For years, we have been fighting a battle over Jewish presence and Jewish rights to purchase and live in every and any neighborhood of Jerusalem. This struggle is seen and felt on a daily basis in the old Yemenite of Shiloach (aka Silwan) which is a very hostile Arab neighborhood with many violent and hate filled Arab clans. […]
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Cleaning Up Beit Prachim – What’s Next?
Beit Prachim is one of the few properties under the auspices of Ateret Cohanim with a sizable courtyard. More than that, it is one of the few places in the Old City where one can feel as if they are sitting in the middle of a wooded park, yet still in the middle of a […]
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From Sustainability To Sovereignty
After the Six Day war when the euphoria of the miraculous world changing victory subsided and Israel got into the nitty gritty of managing a foreign populace that had moved into much of Jerusalem’s Old City from the early 1920s to 1960s, the task of reclaiming and restoring rightful Jewish ownership over much of the […]
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Sustainability, Sovereignty, and a United Jerusalem
For nearly 2,000 years the Jews living in the Land of Israel and those dispersed in exile longed for the day that the Nation of Israel would restore its sovereignty over its holy capital, the resting place of the Divine Presence, and the seat of both the earthly Jewish Kingship and the heavenly one. In […]
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Will Jerusalem’s Coming Green Roof Help Bridge Both The New and Old Jewish Quarters?
The Hebrew language Jerusalem news site Kol HaIr is reporting that a wealthy Jewish businessman from Canada, Ronnen Harary is set to invest millions of shekels to install a green roof on the large roof top plaza known as the Galitzia Courtyard. While no one argues the biophilic necessity of such projects in bringing ecosystem […]
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Coexistence in Shiloach (Silwan) isn’t Rubbish !!!
While left wing radical groups speak of Judenrein areas in Jerusalem (Free of Jews) and demonstrate against Jews legally purchasing and living in predominantly Arab areas (old Jewish neighborhoods) like Shiloach-Silwan, slowly but surely, one can actually see small signs of basic coexistence taking place. Two years ago, Jewish and Arab families in the Shiloach (Kfar […]
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Contiguity Leads To Sovereignty
In the winding maze of streets that make up much of Jerusalem’s Old City, much of the emphasis on Jewish land reclamation initiatives has been the establishment of urban homesteads. Isolated Jewish compounds, secured in a sea of hostile arabs has never been seen as the aim of Ateret Cohanim. Rather, it was a strategy […]
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Green Sovereignty Is Key To Jerusalem’s Future
Day to day life in Jerusalem’s cramped Old City is a mixture of spiritual highs and in many places, especially in many of the mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhoods is also tense with a degree of uncertainty. While much of the Old City is slowly returning to Jewish hands as it was before the pogroms […]
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