Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem sells Real Estate to Zionists

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,(PIC)--The Hebrew newspaper "Maariv" has revealed, on Monday (21/5), a new scandal about selling real estate in Jerusalem to the occupation by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem which had previously been involved in suspicious transactions over the past years. The newspaper pointed out that an agreement has recently reached after four years of negotiations to sell real estate in Jerusalem of approximately 1500 Square meters to Zionist settlers for 10 million dollars. The agreement was between Ozarim Company and the Zionist business man Bani Nahamia and the international company for Real Estate representing the Patriarchate Greek Orthodox. The newspaper revealed that mentioned real estate is located in western Jerusalem on King David Street near the hotel "King David", and that it was rented for many years to the Zionist company that built upon it a residential tower called "King David Residency" that contains 88 apartments one of them was sold for about $ 7 million. The deal is a rare one because the Patriarchate Greek Orthodox had refrained from selling its properties to Zionists, and it used to rent it for so many years without ceding it to Zionists, pointing out that this deal was approved by the higher authorities in the Orthodox Church in Greece. Such deal is considered dangerous because the Greek Patriarchate owns many Real Estate in Jerusalem, it is the second largest owner of land in Jerusalem after the Jewish National Fund " Keren Kayemet".