The Fight For Sovereignty In Jerusalem
In recent weeks the “Palestinian” Authority has made worrying announcements on their intent to apply their sovereignty to areas of “East” Jerusalem. With campaigns to renovate a number of Arab properties across the Eastern neighborhoods, the Abbas regime in Ramallah is seeking to counteract Israel’s successful rehabilitation programs in a number of these neighborhoods. While […]
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82 Years Later, There Is Justice In The Shiloach
In August 1938, the British authorities abandoned the old Yemenite Village of Shiloach and left the Yemenite and Sefardi families without protection. The village was ransacked and the Synagogue desecrated by marauding hate filled Arabs. Six months later in January of 1939, one of the well known Shiloach residents, Shlomo Madmoni tried to return to the village to salvage a […]
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Court victory for Yemenite Sanctified Trust
More Jews to hopefully return to Shiloach. In yet another legal victory for the Yemenite Sanctified Trust Committee, the courts basically ruled in favor of “historical justice” and for the return of Jews to the old Yemenite neighborhood of Shiloach. A number of years ago, after 7-8 years in court, the Supreme court of Israel, ruled that […]
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Project: Water Proofing
Our students are the ultimate urban pioneers. While modern buildings throughout Jerusalem are built like any other city in the 21st century, the properties that Ateret Cohanim acquires are often in dire conditions (because of squatters living illegally.) While we do thorough renovations before our students move in, often times problems run deep and surface […]
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Leveraging the Spacial Challenge of Jerusalem’s Old City For Good
Most of us who have walked the streets and alleys of Jerusalem’s Old City get a sense of the maze like quality in which life seems to unfold. At first glance there is a lack of space and within that lacking, a suffocating feeling that there is no stronger sense of artificial experience. This seems […]
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Kotel HaKatan, one small step, one big victory for Ateret Cohanim!
Kotel HaKatan…small step..big victory for Ateret Cohanim! After years of ongoing endeavors, tens of tours with politicians and nonstop functions held at the Kotel HaKatan, Ateret Cohanim is starting to see rewards for its efforts. MK Rafi Peretz who holds the portfolio of Jerusalem was recently on tour with Ateret Cohanim. One of the upshots […]
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Redeveloping and Regreening Jerusalem
Those of us who live in Israel and have the merit to travel when we want to Jerusalem often times focus on the national and religious significance of Jerusalem, while neglecting the foward reaching expression that Jerusalem is meant to have and currently developing. While our historical religious claims to our capital should never be […]
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Green Zoned Areas And Parkland Destroyed By Arabs In Central Jerusalem
We all know how important are our green zoned areas, parks, gardens and open spaces for any and every resident. Urban planning and development has relied on such areas to give value and breathing space for all residents. Gan HaMelech also known as Kings Garden is the valley east of the City of David, south of […]
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Can “Silicon Wadi” Provide A Working Model For A United Jerusalem?
Despite the uproar by the usual faux “Palestinian” Arab elitists, “Silicon Wadi” is moving towards approval. Silicon Wadi is an ambitious plan to transform the dilapidated industrial zones just outside the Eastern Walls of the Old City in the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Joz to a number. “Silicon Wadi” is part of the government’s five-year […]
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