Sheikh Jarrah#Shepherd Hotel

The Shepherd Hotel (also: Shefer Hotel) is a former hotel in Sheikh Dscharrah, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

History

The building was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem built in the 1930s for Mohammed Amin al -Husseini, who himself did not live there and the house transferred his private secretary and historian George Antonius. Anthony wrote here his main work, The Arab Awakening ( The Arab awakening ).

After Anthony died in 1942, the Shepherd Hotel was the meeting place of the Jerusalem elite. After the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 it was taken over by Jordan and temporarily used as a hostel for pilgrims to Israel in 1967 conquered in the Six Day War in East Jerusalem. 1985 bought the living in the U.S. Jewish investor Irving Moskowitz, the building and called it into Shefer Hotel. The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, visited in 2009 ostensibly a dinner in the hotel, to promote Israel's settlement plans.

On 10 January 2011, the Shepherd Hotel was demolished except for a small, protected area of ​​, to build homes for Jewish settlers. " This disturbing development undermines peace efforts to obtain a two -state solution ," criticized U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "In addition, the demolition of the logic of a reasonable agreement on the future status of Jerusalem between the two sides disagree. " EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton recalled " that the settlements in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories are illegal under international law ".