* The project is located on sign #7 in the above map.

Location
Wadi Rababe: The Hinnom Valley

Initiator
Elad Settlers’ Association.

Implementer
Elad Settlers’ Association.

Project Description
The Elad Settlers’ Association started operating a “coffeehouse” in the Hinnom Valley, on the outskirts of the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Tur. The cafe is operated in a small building (about 50m2), on a lot of about three dunams. The building is located about half a kilometer east of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, only dozens of meters from the houses of the Palestinian neighborhood of Abu Tur.
The settler organization gained access to the property in questionable ways, as it has done in other instances. Elad Settlers’ Association claimed that it had purchased the property from a Palestinian prisoner, who told them he had lived in the area for several years but never owned the land. Since the land is not registered, as are most of the lands in East Jerusalem, the landowners have been forced to undergo a lengthy legal procedure that began in 2011, even though they have documentation from the Ottoman era and in the property tax books. It is also not clear how Elad Settlers’ Association was able to expand the structure that existed while the area was declared a national park.

Status
Operational.

Objections
Emek Shaveh, Peace Now, A Palestinian Family.

Picture by ACAP