Elad wins court case

ELAD has won a court case regarding the City of David archaeological park:

Israel’s Supreme Court upholds privatisation of archaeological park
The Jewish organisation running the City of David site has been accused of marginalising its Arab residents

By Lauren Gelfond Feldinger. Web only (The Art Newspaper)
Published online: 28 March 2012

Israel’s Supreme Court rejected on 26 March a petition questioning the legality of management at the City of David archaeological park. The site, a few meters outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, has been run by Elad under contract with the National Parks Authority. Elad is the first private organisation in Israel to fund and oversee an antiquities site in an Arab neighbourhood, while also settling Jewish residents there.

The petition, by the group Ir Amim, says that operations of national parks should not be in private hands, especially of an organisation with political mandates that are at odds with local residents. Since the ruling, which ends a three-year legal skirmish, Ir Amim has already begun working on a new petition to the court, requesting that the National Parks Authority publish the bids for the contract to run the site.

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