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The Registrar of Dedications has ruled that the Yemenite Jewish Heritage Center in Silwan "is inconsistent with the purpose of the endowment" intended for poor housing and requires court approval.
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Maya Horodnichano
Thursday, January 14, 2021, 11:00 p.m.
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"Restoration of the synagogue in the village of Shiloah as a center of Yemenite Jewish heritage."
Yemenite Synagogue in Silwan (Photo: Photo Processing, City of Nations)
The Registrar of Dedications at the Ministry of Justice, the unit engaged in the registration of public properties of a humanitarian and religious nature, ruled that approval from the District Court was required for the purpose of promoting the Yemeni Jewish Heritage Center in the Silwan neighborhood of Jerusalem.
This is because the center is planned to be built on a property owned by the sanctuary intended for the city's poor.
In response to Ir Amim's petition to freeze the center's promotion, the state said that "a tourist heritage complex in the endowment property raises a question as to the suitability of things for endowment purposes, which are providing a right of residence for the poor according to a hierarchy set forth in the endowment." The trial. "
The state further clarified that the continued budgeting of the project will be done after receiving the approval.
The project is planned in a synagogue in the area where a community of Jews from Yemen lived in the 19th century, and its official goal is to "restore the synagogue in the village of Shiloah as a center of Yemenite Jewish heritage that will be a center for study, study and tour of Yemenite Jewry."
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The Yemenite Synagogue in Silwan (Photo: TPS, Kobi Richter)
The village was abandoned in 1938, during the Great Arab Revolt, when most of the buildings were demolished and Palestinians who came to the site erected new buildings there.
Ateret Cohanim revealed in an investigation that it conducted information about the endowment's assets at the site, and in the early 2000s, the court approved the association's members' request to become endowment trustees.
About three months ago, the Government Company for the Development of Jerusalem (PMI) issued a tender for the operation of a "Visitor Center in the Yemenite Village." According to the petitioners, the trustees of the dedication act in accordance with the goals of the association for the Judaization of the area, and not in accordance with the goals of the dedication - assistance to the poor. The petition further claims that there is a fear that "public funds "Assigned for this purpose, are intended to advance the goals of the Ateret Cohanim Association, which controls through temporary administrations the dedication in Benvenisti."
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In its response filed on Monday, the state argued that the application for an interim order should be denied, due in part to a lack of authority as well as a delay in proceedings.
Regarding the investigation, it was stated in the response that "the audit is a tool in the hands of the Registrar of Dedications to supervise public dedications in Israel. Petitioner's claims regarding 'conflict of interest' of the endowment trustees and the relationship between This is also an early petition. "
The state also clarified that the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage will work with the endowment in order to obtain approval from the court.
This is in accordance with the Trust Law, which allows the court to change or revoke the provisions of the letter of endowment, "whether for reasons that the author of the endowment brought before him or because he saw that there was a real change in circumstances justifying doing so
The state further noted that "until then, the ministry will ensure that no new budgets are issued for the project, and it will be promoted in coordination with the registrar of endowments and with the understanding that action that is not possible contrary to the endowment goals should not be allowed."
The registrar of endowments' application to the endowment trustees last month also stated that the project, on the face of it, "is inconsistent with the endowment goals."
It was also noted that until the Registrar’s position is obtained the project in the endowment property cannot be promoted.
To promote the important Zionist enterprise and restore the crown to its former glory.
Silwan (Photo: Reuven Castro)
"We are very pleased that the State of Israel and the Registrar of Dedications rejected the unfounded allegations of the Ir Amim Association and wrote that the petition for expulsion is imminent," said Advocate Avraham Moshe Segal, Ba Kahad HaKedesh in Benvenisti. In coordination with the State of Israel and the Registrar of Dedications to promote the important Zionist enterprise and to restore the old crown.
"Segal added that" it is worth mentioning that the synagogue in Kfar Hashiloach existed since the beginning of the 20th century with the establishment of the dedication, and proudly served the Jewish residents Who lived there.
Sadly, the Arab invaders also trampled and looted the holy of holies of Israel.
To the joy of the dedication, the synagogue is being restored and the Jewish residents who returned proudly to settle the Shiloah village pray there every day. "
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