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The Shepherd Hotel was a hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. == Origins == The building was built in the 1930s as a home for the Muslim Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who never lived there. As he was deported by the British mandate government in 1937,〔(Middle East Monitor )〕 the building was confiscated and turned into a military outpost for the British Army. At the end of the period of the British Mandate, following the 1948 war, the building was transferred to the ownership of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, like the rest of East Jerusalem, which expanded the original structure by adding a wing to serve as the Shepherd Hotel, mostly used by pilgrims. Following the Six Day War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the hotel was declared "absentee property" (AP) and became the property of the Government of Israel under the "Absentee Property Law". It was used by the Ministry of Justice and as a district courthouse. The land use of the building is part of Plan 2591 approved in 1982 by the Jerusalem District Committee of the Interior Ministry, and is designated for residential use. The Israeli government sold the building and surrounding land in 1985 (November 5) to "C and M properties", a corporation controlled by Irving Moskowitz, a Jewish-American business man, supporter of Israeli settlers activities in East Jerusalem, who also partially funded the Hasmonean Tunnel. With the beginning of the first Intifada in 1987, the Border Police leased the building and stayed there for about 15 years before moving to their new building alongside Highway One. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Shepherd Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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