Jerusalem .- The public company in charge of managing the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem is to expel one of its residents for being a Christian and not Jewish, reports the Israeli newspaper Haaretz today. The Company for Development and Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter, under the Israeli Housing Ministry has urged the owner of one of the apartments in that area (inside the occupied Palestinian territory in East Jerusalem), to eject his tenant, a evangelical Christian who works to improve relations between Christian organizations and the Israeli extreme right.
In a letter to the owner of the apartment, Lorena Sokolovsky, the municipal company says it considers that the tenant must leave because "it does not meet the criteria of population of the Company and is in total contradiction to the Jewish character of the neighborhood." Sokolovsky refuses to evict his tenant, whom he considers "an educated person, quiet and peaceful, well integrated into its surroundings and contributing to the nation, society and country," according to their response to their state-owned lawyers.
Moreover, they argue that man has no conflict or problem with their Jewish neighbors. The director of the Company, Shlomo Atias, recognized the "Haaretz" that the expulsion requirement is that the individual is not Jewish and that "a Christian can live in the Christian quarter." In the Christian Quarter, Armenian and Muslim old city, home to tens of Jewish settlers, many of which placed religious symbols and Israeli flags flamboyantly on the facade, roof and windows of buildings in which they reside.
The Old City of Jerusalem, home to some of the holiest sites in Christianity, Judaism and Islam (as the Holy Sepulchre, the Wailing Wall and Temple Mount), was occupied by Israel after the War Six Days, in 1967. The international community does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over eastern Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as capital of their future state. 
In a letter to the owner of the apartment, Lorena Sokolovsky, the municipal company says it considers that the tenant must leave because "it does not meet the criteria of population of the Company and is in total contradiction to the Jewish character of the neighborhood." Sokolovsky refuses to evict his tenant, whom he considers "an educated person, quiet and peaceful, well integrated into its surroundings and contributing to the nation, society and country," according to their response to their state-owned lawyers.
Moreover, they argue that man has no conflict or problem with their Jewish neighbors. The director of the Company, Shlomo Atias, recognized the "Haaretz" that the expulsion requirement is that the individual is not Jewish and that "a Christian can live in the Christian quarter." In the Christian Quarter, Armenian and Muslim old city, home to tens of Jewish settlers, many of which placed religious symbols and Israeli flags flamboyantly on the facade, roof and windows of buildings in which they reside.
The Old City of Jerusalem, home to some of the holiest sites in Christianity, Judaism and Islam (as the Holy Sepulchre, the Wailing Wall and Temple Mount), was occupied by Israel after the War Six Days, in 1967. The international community does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over eastern Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as capital of their future state.
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