Land Research Center

On August 28^th 2014, the Planning Committee of the occupation municipality approved on the plan of building a school of religion in Sheik Jarrah in Occupied Jerusalem. The committee has initially accepted the plan in February 2014. According to the plan, 9.6 dunum will be designated for constructing a Talmudic academy relative to OR Sameach academy of religion. The plan no.68858 includes establishing a 13 floor  building of which 3 floors will be built under the ground and 9 others above it. Buildings will be composed of a school of religion, residential rooms, and gymnasiums where 1.3 dunum will be allocated as an open area that will serve the project itself. Another area will also be allocated as storing facility for the municipality. Not surprisingly, the plan is to be located  next to the colonial building " Sham 'on the friend"   and between Nasaif gas station and al-Hiah medical center, the occupation pretended that the aforementioned area was confiscated in late sixties after the occupation on Palestine under the so-called Israel's Absentees' Property law for the year 1995 and that the areas belong to the Israel Lands Department.