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The hotel and the Old City of Jerusalem Hotel facade faced in Jerusalem stone. Originally known as the Laromme, the hotel was designed by architect Yaakov Rechter. [1] It opened in 1982 on a tract of land adjacent to Liberty Bell Park owned by one of the churches in Jerusalem and leased by the Jerusalem Municipality. The original plan was to ...
The American Colony Hotel, on the "seamline" between east and west Jerusalem, is the preferred hotel of many diplomats, politicians and foreign correspondents. [2] Its famous guests include Jack Greenberg, Leon Uris, Lawrence of Arabia, Christiane Amanpour, Winston Churchill, [8] Bob Dylan, Tony Blair, Philip Roth, Eric Frattini, and John le Carré.
Sir Abu Nuʽayr (Arabic: صِيْر أَبُو نُعَيْر, romanized: Ṣīr Abū Nuʽayr), also known as Sir Bu Nuʽayr (Arabic: صِيْر بُو نُعَيْر, romanized: Ṣīr Bū Nuʿayr), or Sir al Qawasim (Arabic: صِيْر ٱلْقَوَاسِم, romanized: Ṣīr Al-Qawāsim; also romanized as Sir Abu Neir, Sir Bu Nair or Sir Bu Nuair) is an island in the Persian Gulf.
But on July 2, 2009, at the height of U.S. efforts to press Israel to adopt a settlement freeze in order to get the peace process going, the Local Planning Committee of the Jerusalem Municipality approved the request, which included the destruction of the existing buildings on the property, except for the historic structure designated for ...
King David Hotel after being targeted in the terrorist attack by the Zionist organization Irgun, 1946. On July 22, 1946, the southwestern corner of the hotel was bombed during a terrorist attack by the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun. 91 people of various nationalities, including Britons, Arabs and Jews, were killed and 45 people were injured [1] [3] by the militant right-wing group. [4]
David Citadel Hotel (Hebrew: מָלוֹן מֽצוּדָת דָּוִד, malón mezudát davíd) is a luxury hotel on King David Street in Jerusalem, across the street from the Mamilla Mall. [2] It has hosted VIPs , global political leaders, business moguls and celebrities, competing with the nearby King David Hotel [ 3 ] and the new Waldorf ...
The Al Qasimi (Arabic: القواسم, spelled sometimes as Al Qassimi or Al Qassemi; plural: Al Qawasem Arabic: القواسم and, archaically, Joasmee) is an Arab dynasty in the Persian Gulf that rules Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah, today forming two of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.
According to an article by Thomas Abowd in the Jerusalem Quarterly (Hawliyat al-Quds), the Arab population of the quarter reached approximately 1,000, most of whom were refugees [58] who had appropriated the evacuated Jewish houses in 1949.