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PM OF ISRAEL ON CENTER’S MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE JERUSALEM: “I STAND BEHIND IT 100%”


ACTING PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL ON WIESENTHAL CENTER’S MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE JERUSALEM: “I STAND BEHIND IT100%”

(LOS ANGELES) -- In a phone call Tuesday afternoon from Jerusalem to Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the SimonWiesenthal Center, and Larry A. Mizel, Chairman of the Center’s Board of Trustees, Ehud Olmert, Acting Prime Minister of the State of Israel reaffirmed his full support for the Center forHuman Dignity Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem. The project is now under construction in the heart of West Jerusalem, in what was once a public parking lot, adjacent to IndependencePark.

“This is an essential project for Jerusalem, a landmark that will change the face of Jerusalem forever,” said Mr.Olmert. “I stand behind it 100%, with all my power.”

Acting Prime Minister Olmert’s support comes in wake of a petition brought to the Israeli Supreme Court by Islamic organizationswho charge that the site is a Moslem cemetery. In its reply to the Supreme Court, Center attorneys asserted that the site, given to the Center by the Government of Israel and theMunicipality of Jerusalem was a public parking lot for 30 years and never designated as a cemetery. Furthermore, in 1964, the Sha’aria (Moslem Religious Court) ruled the site “a Mundras[abandoned ancient burial ground]…that its sanctity has ceased to exist in it…and it is permitted to do whatever is permitted to do in any other land which was never a cemetery…”

For more information, contact the Wiesenthal Center’s public relations department, 310-553-9036, or visit www.wiesenthal.com.

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