Building The Old City (Jerusalem during Sukkot holiday)

Arutz Sheva | 12 October 2003

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Building The Old City
14:17 Oct 12, '03 / 16 Tishrei 5764

Tens of thousands of people are expected to visit Jerusalem daily during this Sukkot holiday week, and dozens of events are planned throughout the country.

After three years of difficult renovations on a burnt-out hovel, a new Jewish property will be dedicated in the Old Citys Moslem Quartertoday: Beit Reuven, named for a victim of the 1929 Arab pogroms in the Holy Land. Welfare Minister Zevulun Orlev of the National Religious Party will affix the mezuzah to the doorpost this afternoon, and a Jewish family will move in.

Thousands of visitors to the Old City have responded to invitations broadcast over loudspeakers, and are visiting new and old Jewish sites in the Moslem Quarter. Matti Dan, chairman of the Ateret Cohanim association that purchases properties and brings Jews to live in the Old City, told Arutz-7 that some 60 Jewish families currently live in the Old City outside of the Jewish Quarter. "With the seven Jewish institutions that operate in these areas, we have eight to nine hundred Jews who frequent these areas," Dan said. Every additional Jewish house and family is a small victory over the conception that there is a separate Arab quarter here. Jerusalem is one united city...

Asked how the efforts to purchase properties and move Jews in are funded, Dan said, For one thing, we had a telethon with Arutz-7 on Jerusalem Day a few months ago, and within three hours, no fewer than 800 people called up to donate money. Afterwards, other donations came in&

Arutz-7's Yaakov Klein said, "So youre saying that, as we read in Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) yesterday, it's all a matter of kesef (money). Matti Dan responded, "It's actually chiefly a matter of kosef (longing) - just as the rabbi told the Kuzari king, that the Redemption will come when the Jewish People long strongly for it and for the Land of Israel. If the Jewish people decide that they want to settle Jerusalem, then we can buy up the entire Old City and populate it with Jews. See "www.ateret.org.il/"; donations can be earmarked for Jewish settlement in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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