Jewish organization wins 14-year legal battle against Greek Orthodox Church Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling from 2017 honoring Ateret Cohanim’s lease of three church properties in Jerusalem’s Old City. June 12, 2019
PA releases Palestinian American sentenced to life for selling land to Jews Issem Akel was prosecuted for selling an Arab-owned home in Jerusalem to the Ateret Cohanim organization, a yeshivah group that has bought properties in the Muslim quarter of the Old City. Jackson Richman Jan. 21, 2019
PA condemns Palestinian American to life sentence in prison for selling land to Jews Issam Akel was arrested and put through a trial, despite the fact that he has U.S. citizenship, an Israeli ID card, and that the U.S. State Department and U.S. Ambassador to Israel demanded his release. Dec. 31, 2018
