(Ruminations) Yaacov Lozowick - The other day a private developer destroyed a large Jerusalem building which has been empty for decades, so as to construct an apartment building on its site. The building, originally built by the infamous Haj Amin al-Husseini in the 1930s, was confiscated during WWII by the British, while Husseini was hobnobbing with his Nazi friends in Berlin. Along the way it became known as the Shepherd Hotel. I took snapshots in all directions while standing at the entrance to the Shepherd complex. To the north is the sports center of the Hebrew University. To the east is the Hebrew University campus, part of the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Joz, and the highway to Maale Adumim. I then stood just north of the compound and saw the Israel Ministry of Housing and a medical clinic of the Klalit Israeli health fund.
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