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Misinformation on Jerusalem Municipality Seeking to Tax Church Property
(CAMERA) Tamar Sternthal - Recent news stories regarding the Jerusalem municipality's stated intention to collect taxes on church-owned property often omitted the crucial detail that the focus was limited to property not used for worship. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat explained that the city will not be able to abide a situation in which only in Jerusalem, hotels, banquet halls and commercial businesses are exempt from municipal taxes because they are church-owned, while in Haifa and Tel Aviv, municipal taxes are collected on the commercial assets of churches.