Armenian Quarter residents campaign against hotel project
Armenian residents of Jerusalem's Old City are protesting against the plan to build a luxury hotel on a large plot of land in the historic Armenian Quarter.
An Armenian priest was defrocked after selling the plot , which today is mostly used as a car park, to an Israeli-Australian property developer. The community is trying to stop the building of the hotel and suspect right-wing Jewish nationalist groups may be behind the initiative.
KAN's Mark Weiss spoke with Armenian Quarter resident Setrag Balian, co-founder of the Save The ArQ (Armenian Quarter) movement , set up to thwart the sale…
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