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unusual facts about Mufti of Jerusalem



The Shepherd Hotel

The building was built in the 1930s as a home for the Muslim Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who never lived there.


see also

Philip Palin

The report criticised all parties: Haj Amin al-Husseini, later Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, for inciting the Arabs to violence; Ze'ev Jabotinsky, organiser of the Jewish paramilitary defence organisation Haganah; the British military command in Jerusalem that had initially withdrawn troops from the streets; and the divided political chain of command from London.