Jerusalem: Jewish settler movement makes bid for large slice of Armenian quarter

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Jerusalem: Jewish settler movement makes bid for large slice of Armenian quarter

The Armenian quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City is facing its biggest crisis in a long time. A Jewish businessman with connections to the radical settler movement is poised to develop a quarter of the neighbourhood’s territory, with plans to build a luxury hotel. If this goes ahead, it will significantly change part of Jerusalem’s Old City and hasten the demographic shift towards the city’s Jewish population which has been happening for some years.…