Construction gets underway on Shepherd's Hotel site

I'm sure that many of you recall the Shepherd's Hotel in the Nachlat Shimon (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood) of Jerusalem. The hotel was formerly owned by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. The site was purchased by investor Irving Moskowitz in 1985.On Sunday, bulldozers began to knock down the building to prepare for its replacement: A group of 20 apartments to be populated by Jews. The